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opposites
at the head of Jan. 6
of the GOP evidence
Fiscal showdowns to test shelved
working relationship of
McCarthy and McConnell SOCIAL MEDIA MEMO
WENT UNPUBLISHED
BY L IZ G OODWIN
AND M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR
Panel leaders didn’t want
to rankle tech firms, GOP
Newly elected House Speaker
Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and
Senate Minority Leader Mitch BY C AT Z AKRZEWSKI,
McConnell (R-Ky.) have a nearly C RISTIANO L IMA
25-year age gap and political AND D REW H ARWELL
styles that are described by their
colleagues as polar opposites, The Jan. 6 committee spent
with one a glad-handing leader months gathering stunning new
and the other a more sphinx-like details on how social media com-
strategist. panies failed to address the on-
But the ability of the two Re- line extremism and calls for vio-
publican leaders — who associ- lence that preceded the Capitol
ates say have a good, professional ANDY WONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS riot.
but not close relationship — to A man pulls a child past Lunar New Year decorations in Beijing. China on Tuesday reported its first population decline since The evidence they collected
work together now takes on new 1961, a demographic plight fueled by a one-child policy meant to stave off overpopulation that was in effect for decades. was written up in a 122-page
significance as several high- memo that was circulated among

China’s population, fortunes tumble

stakes fiscal showdowns loom in the committee, according to a
Congress. draft viewed by The Washington
McCarthy, who eked out a vic- Post. But in the end, committee
tory in the speaker’s race earlier leaders declined to delve into
this month, faces the challenge of those topics in detail in their final
leading a vanishingly small House report, reluctant to dig into the
majority whose far-right mem- BY C HRISTIAN S HEPHERD Record-low birthrate hastens likely to be assumed by India this year, roots of domestic extremism tak-
bers have threatened to default on
the nation’s debt obligations in China’s population shrank last year for long-expected decline, adds according to projections by the United
Nations.
ing hold in the Republican Party
beyond former president Donald
order to enact steep federal the first time since a devastating famine peril of economic stagnation Although long predicted, that reversal Trump and concerned about the
spending cuts. McConnell, in the in the Mao era, in a clear sign that the has arrived far earlier than expected. risks of a public battle with
minority in the Democratic- country is facing a looming demographic trous Great Leap Forward industrial Leading Chinese scholars and the United powerful tech companies, ac-
controlled Senate, leads a caucus crisis worsened by decades of coercive policy, along with floods and drought. Nations estimated as recently as 2019 cording to three people familiar
that is generally more averse to policy that limited most families to a The government’s efforts to reverse the that the downward trend would not with the matter who spoke on the
such brinkmanship, raising the single child. falling birthrate began in earnest in 2016, begin until early in the 2030s. condition of anonymity to dis-
possibility that Republicans on China’s National Bureau of Statistics when it ended the one-child-per-family Official recognition of a declining cuss the panel’s sensitive deliber-
opposite ends of the Capitol will on Tuesday announced a decline of rule, placing the restriction at two chil- population is an “extremely important ations.
find themselves at odds in the 850,000 people to a new total population dren instead. But neither that revision historical inflection point” not just for Congressional investigators
coming months. of 1.4118 billion — the first such decline in nor a 2021 adjustment to allow three China but also for the world, said Yi found evidence that tech plat-
The duo’s colleagues say they 60 years. The birthrate reached its lowest children has slowed the downward Fuxian, a scholar at the University of forms — especially Twitter —
could not be more different. Mc- level on record, at 6.77 per 1,000 people, trend. Wisconsin at Madison and a longtime failed to heed their own employ-
Carthy, a prolific fundraiser and down from 7.52 in 2021. China faces a shrinking workforce that critic of Beijing’s failure to accept the ees’ warnings about violent rhet-
Californian leading a majority for The last time China’s population de- will struggle to support a rapidly aging extent of its demographic crisis. oric on their sites and bent their
the first time, is a “cheerleader,” clined was in 1961, after three years of population. Its centuries-old position as If not addressed, Yi argues, China’s rules to avoid penalizing con-
backslapping type, said Sen. famine caused by Mao Zedong’s disas- the most populous nation in the world is SEE CHINA ON A9 servatives, particularly then-
Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), who has President Trump, out of fear of
SEE GOP ON A4 SEE SOCIAL MEDIA ON A20

Fiery public comments Election conspiracies cited in N.M. shootings plot

challenge local boards New details emerge as federal, state authorities investigate attacks on Democratic officials’ homes
ted to comment just once a BY A MY G ARDNER
month — and the board is consid- D AN R OSENZWEIG- Z IFF
Citing disorder and ering further restrictions.
AND

misinformation, officials
turn to limiting sessions
BY K ARIN B RULLIARD
A school board meeting in
Greeley, Colo., kicked off this
month with a newly restrictive
public comment policy — the
fourth iteration in a year marked
by such vitriol over masks and
books that one member suggest-
ed suspending comment alto-
gether. Two opportunities for cit-
izens to address the board for a
total of four minutes had already
been slimmed to one three-
minute chance. Now speakers
would have two minutes.
In Rochester, Minn., where
public comment at city council
meetings has featured personal
attacks on the mayor and base-
less accusations about the library
promoting pedophilia, speakers
since October have been permit-
And in Salem, Ore., the school
board in September closed meet-
ings to the public and began
taking comments by Zoom or
phone or in writing, following
what the superintendent called
an “escalation of disruptive be-
havior” that had turned in-
person comment into a “public
forum for political agendas.”
Across a polarized nation, gov-
erning bodies are restricting —
and sometimes even halting —
public comment to counter what
elected officials describe as an
unprecedented level of invective,
misinformation and disorder
from citizens when they step to
the microphone. As contentious
social issues roil once-sleepy
town council and school board
gatherings, some officials say al-
lowing people to have their say is
poisoning meetings and thwart-
ing the ability to get business
done.
“I’m not denigrating the con-
SEE SPEAKERS ON A6
The arrest of a defeated candi-
date for the New Mexico legislature
on charges that he orchestrated a
plot to shoot up the homes of four
Democratic officials in Albuquer-
que prompted widespread condem-
nation Tuesday as well as accusa-
tions that the stolen-election rheto-
ric among supporters of former
president Donald Trump continues
to incite violence.
Following the Monday arrest,
new details emerged Tuesday about
the alleged conspiracy, including
how close a spray of bullets came to
the sleeping 10-year-old daughter
of a state senator. Albuquerque po-
lice said in charging documents
released Tuesday that Solomon
Peña, 39, who lost a state House seat
in November by a nearly 2-1 margin
but complained that his defeat was
rigged, hatched the plot. Police ac-
cused him of conspiring with four
ROBERTO E. ROSALES/ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL/ASSOCIATED PRESS accomplices to drive past the offi-
Solomon Peña, center, is accused of hiring four co-conspirators to carry out a plot to shoot up the cials’ homes and fire at them.
homes of four Democratic officials in New Mexico after he lost his November election. SEE PEÑA ON A8

In the News convicted of 24 counts of

THE NATION
A top Biden adminis-
tration official warned
that the coronavirus
could spell extended
surges of cold-weather
illnesses for years to
come, putting hospitals
in a tough spot. A3
The Supreme Court
faced weighty questions
as it considered whether
the federal government
RONALD WITTEK/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
can pursue criminal
Anti-coal protest Police got stuck in mud, and charges against Turkey’s
state-owned bank. A4
climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained,
Documents emerged
rape. A12
After deadly flooding
Ohio lawmakers. A5 and landslides, people in
Brian Walshe has been the Philippines were
charged with murder in filled with rising dread of
the killing of his wife, extreme weather. A13
Ana Walshe, nearly two
weeks after she was re- THE ECONOMY
ported missing. A6 A federal shareholder
Harvard Medical trial got underway over
School withdrew from Elon Musk’s 2018 decla-
U.S. News & World Re- ration that he had
port rankings. A8 “Funding secured” to
take Tesla private. A15
THE WORLD Left-leaning state law-
Gen. Mark A. Milley, makers are coordinating
chairman of the Joint to propose wealth taxes
Chiefs of Staff, met with targeting the assets of
his Ukrainian counter- the super-rich. A16
pride and great expecta-
tions for Maryland’s Inside
Black voters. B1
Metro and its regulator
are at loggerheads again,
stirring discussion of an
arrangement Congress
created six years ago to
make the transit agency
safer. B1
At least 200 graves of
enslaved people were
found at a church cem-
etery in Maryland, where
descendants and volun-
teers cleared brush from
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stones. B1 Into the unknown
Tips on accepting and embracing cooking chaos.
Maryland lawmakers

as demonstrations in Germany continued. A10 showing that a group
with ties to the gas in-
D.C. crime bill Council members voted to dustry helped push the
override the mayor’s veto of a controversial shaky narrative that nat-
overhaul of the city’s criminal code. B1 ural gas is “green” to
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countless trees.
Tallying the damage will take
time, but the number of homes
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said Brian Ferguson, pack is normally at its peak,
spokesperson for the Governor’s according to the state
Office of Emergency Services. Department of Water Resources.
The damage is spread across 41 President Biden is planning to
of California’s 58 counties, visit areas that have been
Ferguson said. devastated by the extreme
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Covid winters could repeat for years, Biden o∞cial says
BY L ENA H . S UN
AND J OEL A CHENBACH
As the United States enters its
third full covid winter, a top
administration official is warn-
ing that the permanence of the
coronavirus in the disease land-
scape could mean brutal and
long-lasting seasonal surges of
cold-weather illnesses for years
to come, resulting in hospitals
struggling to care for non-covid
emergencies and unable to give
patients timely, lifesaving treat-
ments.
Winter has traditionally been
crunchtime for hospitals because
of influenza and another season-
al pathogen, respiratory syncy-
tial virus, or RSV. Now SARS-
CoV-2 has joined them to form an
unholy trinity of pathogens that
surge in the cold months.
White House covid-19 re-
sponse coordinator Ashish Jha
said the American health-care
system may not be able to with-
stand the continued viral on-
slaught, straining the system’s
ability to care for other serious
illnesses.
“I am worried that we are
going to have, for years, our
health system being pretty dys-
functional, not being able to take
care of heart attack patients, not
being able to take care of cancer
patients, not being able to take
care of the kid who’s got appendi-
citis because we’re going to be so
overwhelmed with respiratory
viruses for . . . three or four
months a year,” Jha told The
Washington Post.
He described a scenario in
which the typical winter logjam
of patients begins much earlier
than usual — in August or Sep-
tember — because of the corona-
virus. It’s a darker scenario than
the administration has portrayed
in the past, and one Jha said
most Americans have yet to real-
ize.
“I just think people have not
appreciated the chronic cost, be-
cause we have seen this as an
acute problem,” Jha said. “We
have no idea how hard this is
going to make life for everybody,
for long periods of time.”
James Jarvis, a senior execu-
tive at Bangor-based Northern
Light Health, the second-largest
health system in Maine, shares
Jha’s concerns. He said hospitals
now expect to see patients who
are sicker, including people with
long covid, children more at risk
for diabetes because of covid-19
infections and patients suffering
from heart conditions related to
previous bouts of the disease.
Jarvis, who also works in a
small family-medicine practice,
had a patient who was hospital-
ized two months ago for covid-19,
and then again for influenza. He
was discharged to an acute reha-
bilitation facility but then suf-
fered a stroke. There was no bed
available at Northern Light’s
flagship hospital, Eastern Maine
Medical Center, so he was treated
in the emergency room for four
days.
“He never left the emergency
room,” Jarvis said. “I felt horrible.
I’d see him and say, ‘I’m so sorry
that you’re still in the emergency
room.’” The patient received the
care that was needed and even-
tually went home, but Jarvis was
frustrated that the patient never
got a hospital bed.
These warnings come at a
moment when public health offi-
cials are still waiting to see how
bad the current winter surge in
viral infections turns out to be.
So far, this covid winter in the
United States has been challeng-
ing, though not nearly as disas-
trous as the past two. But much
of the winter still lies ahead.
While covid-19 hospitalizations
rose significantly between Octo-
ber and the end of December,
hospitalizations in recent days
have fallen, with about 35,000
inpatients suffering from covid-
19 as of Tuesday.
The national numbers can
mask geographical surges: States
along the East Coast have been
hit hardest so far, while the West
has largely been spared.
Public health officials are
closely monitoring the spread of
XBB.1.5, an omicron subvariant
that is the most transmissible
form of the coronavirus yet seen.
It already has become the domi-
nant lineage in the Northeast
and will probably, at current
rates, take over everywhere, out-
competing other omicron vari-
ants.
Despite its transmissibility,
XBB.1.5 does not appear more
likely than earlier forms of omi-
cron to cause severe disease, and
as it spreads in a population with
significant levels of immunity, it
has not managed to create the
same devastating surge of hospi-
talizations seen in the past two
years.
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Politics & the Nation
TOP: People outside Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago on
Dec. 12. ABOVE: Nurses demonstrate during a strike at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York on Jan. 10. The nation’s health system
is being tested by increased demand for care and staffing shortages.
In January 2021, more than
3,000 people a day were dying of
covid-19, because almost no one
had immunity at that point and
vaccines had just started rolling
out. Last year, the situation was
only marginally better. The U.S.
population had much more im-
munity from vaccines and previ-
ous infections, but the omicron
variant was leaps and bounds
more transmissible than previ-
ous ones. Omicron was less likely
to be fatal for an infected patient,
but so many people got sick so
quickly that the nationwide
death toll in January 2022 rose to
more than 2,500 a day.
This winter, the “tripledemic”
of the coronavirus, the flu and
RSV has not been as terrible as
feared. Pediatric hospitalizations
for RSV increased sharply in the
fall but have dropped substan-
tially. The flu started its cold-
weather assault relatively early
in the fall, rose quickly and has
declined steadily for the past six
weeks.
The big unknown now is what
will happen as the health-care
system feels the effects of the
winter chill keeping more people
indoors.
Jha told The Post that he
compares the health-care system
to a sea wall, holding back a
certain level of water. In winter,
when case numbers pile up, the
water splashes over a little. Hos-
pitals staff up temporarily and
try to make it through until the
water recedes. That’s the old
normal.
But SARS-CoV-2 has dumped
new water into that sea, and the
flood of patients has cascading
The nurses who went on strike in New York last week were able to
return to work after tentative labor agreements were reached.
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Some officials in the Biden
administration aren’t sure the
scenario will be quite as grim as
Jha outlined.
“It’s not an unreasonable hy-
pothesis,” said one senior admin-
istration official involved with
the coronavirus response, who
was not authorized to comment
publicly and spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity. “But I don’t
think we have hit a steady state of
disease to be able to say for sure
what we will see year in and year
out. . . . It’s very dynamic.”
“We all agree that the virus is
evolving faster than we thought.
We just don’t know where the
virus is headed. We don’t even
know what the next three weeks
are going to hold.”
As always, the unknown factor
in predicting the coming months
and years is evolution: Viruses
mutate. There is no way to pre-
dict what the coronavirus will do
next, but experts do not think it
has run out of evolutionary
space.
Still, for more than a year, all of
the new circulating versions of
the virus have been subvariants
of omicron and have not shown
signs of making people sicker.
“If XBB.1.5 had the virulence of
delta, we would be in deep
weeds,” said Ross McKinney,
chief scientific officer for the
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Association of American Medical
Colleges.
covid-19 is not the only killer labor costs, physician burnout McKinney and other experts
when health-care systems are and the trend toward outpatient emphasize the importance of im-
under stress. People with ail- treatment. The added coronavi- proving vaccine uptake to reduce
ments may delay tests and rus strain is likely to push some the respiratory disease burden —
screenings, they may be more facilities over the edge, noted to ward off severe covid-19 cases,
reluctant to go to the hospital for Robert Wachter, a professor and as well as other diseases like the
fear of catching an infection, and chair of the Department of Medi- flu. Despite all the pain and
patients may wind up waiting cine at the University of Califor- suffering inflicted during the
hours for an examination when nia at San Francisco. pandemic, vaccine acceptance
minutes count. “With all of this, you’ll see remains dismayingly low, experts
“Delays of care will result in hospitals . . . begin closing at a say.
people having either more severe faster pace, leaving some rural/ “The willingness of the public
disease or, unfortunately, dying, suburban communities without to accept vaccines to limit the
and there’s little that we can do to a hospital, and fewer hospitals in spread of these respiratory dis-
prevent that,” Jarvis said. “You urban areas,” Wachter said by eases is very limited,” said Wil-
know, that has always happened, email. liam Schaffner, an infectious-dis-
but never to the extent that it’s So far, Congress and the feder- ease doctor at Vanderbilt Univer-
happening now.” al government broadly have not sity School of Medicine. “If the
As for the future, “it’s only taken concerted action to ad- public doesn’t accept them,
going to get worse,” Jarvis said. dress these chronic challenges. there’ll be more people sick and
Hospitals are already under There is no cavalry on the hori- greater stress on the health-care
ANDRES KUDACKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS financial stress because of rising zon for the health-care system. system.”
effects on other types of medical
care.
Anne Zink, chief medical offi-
cer for the Alaska Department of
Health, said Jha’s sea wall anal-
ogy accurately describes the
stress of the pandemic on Ameri-
ca’s overall declining health.
“The sea wall was crumbling
before the pandemic, and the
waves of the pandemic created
great holes, and that continual
onslaught will degrade the wall
and make it worse,” said Zink, an
emergency room physician who
is also president of the Associa-
tion of State and Territorial
Health Officials.
In addition, uncertainties in
the medical supply chain have
become the new normal, said
Jarvis of Northern Light Health.
Medication and supply shortages
happen with greater frequency.
Critical shortages for nurses and
other staff are expected to wors-
en as physicians and nurses re-
tire but aren’t replaced in the
same numbers. More than 7,000
nurses at two major New York
hospital systems walked off the
job last week after labor talks
broke down over staffing and
workloads, though tentative
deals were reached Thursday en-
abling them to return to work.
Before the pandemic, the hos-
pital system had always had
some flexibility and had been
able to manage its shortage of
acute-care beds, Jarvis said. “But
that flexibility is now gone,” he
said. “There is no wiggle room or
expansion room that we would
have for anything in reserve.”
Since the start of the pandem-
ic, experts have warned that
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Supreme Court struggles with criminal charges against Turkish-owned bank
BY R OBERT B ARNES
The Supreme Court faced
weighty and seemingly novel
questions Tuesday as it consid-
ered whether the federal govern-
ment can pursue criminal charg-
es against Turkey’s state-owned
bank, which is accused of helping
to launder billions of dollars so
Iran could evade U.S. economic
sanctions.
A lawyer for Turkey’s Halkbank
told the justices that sovereign
immunity shields the institution
from criminal prosecution under
centuries-old precedents. But two
lower federal courts have said the
prosecution may proceed, and
that there is no prohibition in
federal law against the case being
pursued by a U.S. attorney in New
York.
The initial charges against
Halkbank were brought during
the Trump administration, and
threatened the close relationship
between President Donald
Trump and Turkish President Re-
cep Tayyip Erdogan.
Man going through divorce rams dump truck into wife’s home, video shows
BY T IMOTHY B ELLA
An estranged husband whose
wife says they are going through a
divorce was captured on camera
repeatedly ramming a dump
truck into his partner’s home in
Los Angeles over the weekend,
slamming into parked cars and
seemingly destroying anything
that got in his way.
Patricia Dunn told KABC that
the man behind the wheel was her
husband, Ronald Dunn, from
whom she is getting a divorce.
After she filed a restraining order
against him earlier this month,
the 63-year-old woman noted to
KCAL, her husband grew even
more enraged — and caused her to
fear for her life.
Backslapping McCarthy, enigmatic McConnell must lead a fractious GOP
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served in both chambers with
both men. McConnell, who re-
cently became the longest-serving
Senate party leader in history,
keeps his cards notoriously close
to his vest and has a reputation as
a master strategist.
“Mitch is more of an enigma,”
said Sen. John Neely Kennedy
(R-La.). “I saw him smile once
back in 2017.”
Still, both men have a voracious
interest in politics and a relentless
focus on winning elections — the
common denominator in their re-
lationship.
“I think they’re kindred spirits
in a political sense,” said Sen.
Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who also
has served in both chambers with
both men. “They’re just in a differ-
ent spot.”
How they operate
Former House speaker Paul D.
Ryan (R-Wis.) called McCarthy
“affable” and McConnell more re-
served. But they already have a
solid foundation, he added, given
that McCarthy has led House Re-
publicans since 2019. “It’s not like
these guys are just getting to know
each other. They’ve been working
together for years.”
McConnell used to meet weekly
with Speakers John A. Boehner
(R-Ohio) and Ryan, alternating
offices each week, but his meet-
ings with McCarthy have been
less frequent, as both men have
been in the minority in their
chambers and the pandemic dis-
rupted the congressional sched-
ule, according to former and cur-
rent aides, who, like others in this
article, spoke on the condition of
anonymity to talk candidly about
internal matters. They plan to
meet more frequently now that
McCarthy is speaker.
Ryan, who was speaker when
McCarthy was majority leader,
and McConnell became friends
when they ran the House and the
Senate, respectively, going out to
dinner with their wives frequent-
ly and enjoying a mutual trust
that came in part from how inter-
twined their staffs were. (Ryan’s
chief of staff at the time had previ-
ously worked for McConnell.)
McConnell and McCarthy are
not as close, but a former Senate
aide said the minority leader
doesn’t need a close personal con-
nection to work well with his
counterparts.
“People get way too hung up on
buddy movies in Congress, and
with McConnell that’s just not a
thing,” the former aide said. “He
wants to get the work done, he
wants to win.”
Ryan, however, said the close
relationship was “helpful” in
working well together.
Colleagues say McCarthy and
McConnell respect each other, de-
Prosecutors alleged that from
2012 to 2016, Halkbank and its
senior officers used front compa-
nies in Iran, Turkey and the Unit-
ed Arab Emirates and made “illic-
it transactions” that should have
exposed the bank to sanctions
under U.S. law. The front compa-
nies allowed the bank to transfer
about $20 billion of what should
have been restricted Iranian
funds, according to the indict-
ment, including at least $1 billion
that passed through the U.S. fi-
nancial system.
Although at least one official
has pleaded guilty to the scheme,
Halkbank has resisted the indict-
ment.
Washington lawyer Lisa S.
Blatt, representing Halkbank,
said the bank is basically an arm
of the Turkish government and is
protected by precedent that for-
bids one nation from hauling
another into its courts for crimi-
nal prosecution. Moreover, she
said, the 1976 Foreign Sovereign
Immunities Act (FSIA) limits the
jurisdiction of American courts
Details surrounding the cou-
ple’s divorce remain unclear, and
neither Patricia nor Ronald Dunn
immediately responded to re-
quests for comment early Tues-
day. It’s unclear whether charges
have been brought against Ron-
ald Dunn.
About 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the
Westmont neighborhood of South
Los Angeles, the man allegedly
came by the house three times,
neighbors recounted to authori-
ties. Neighbor Journey Megger-
son told KCAL how Ronald Dunn
first came by in a white Chevrolet
Impala “and tore up the garage
door.”
But before the Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department ar-
rived at the scene, Dunn allegedly
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), left, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), now speaker of the House, at the Capitol in
2022. Colleagues say the relationship between the two men — who have very different leadership styles — is professional but not close.
spite their differences.
“They have very different
styles,” said Rep. Patrick T.
McHenry (R-N.C.), a McCarthy
ally. “It’s my hope they’ll have a
collaborative relationship to put
us on the right track to win in ’24.
And that has to develop over
time.”
McConnell and McCarthy de-
clined to comment for this article
through their aides, though both
have said publicly that they work
well together.
The Trump factor
Although both men’s strength
lies in their focus on raw political
strategy, not policy, McConnell
and McCarthy have very different
relationships with the leader of
the Republican Party, former
president Donald Trump, which
led them in different directions in
last year’s elections.
McCarthy publicly thanked
Trump for helping him secure the
speaker’s job with phone calls to
holdouts after a historic 14 failed
votes earlier this month. In con-
trast, McConnell has not spoken
to the former president in more
than two years, since Trump’s re-
fusal to accept his 2020 loss, and
has said he believes that Trump’s
influence in boosting more ex-
treme Senate candidates contrib-
uted to Republicans’ under-
whelming performance in the
midterms. The standoff has
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over lawsuits against foreign
countries.
“The U.S. does not dispute that
criminal trials against sovereigns
were unthinkable in 1789, would
violate international law today,
are unprecedented anywhere,
and would risk retaliation,” Blatt
said. The same goes for entities
that are government-owned or
controlled, she said.
If the Supreme Court were to
agree with the government that
Halkbank can be prosecuted,
Blatt said, “for the first time in the
history of the world and on the
planet, time immemorial, you’re
saying that it’s conceivable a for-
eign state can be indicted.”
But she received immediate
pushback from Justice Brett M.
Kavanaugh, who noted the pros-
ecution started under Trump and
is being defended by the Biden
administration.
He said it would be “pretty
bizarre for this court to tell the
president of the United States as a
matter of his national security
exercise that even though the
returned to his wife’s home with
something much bigger than an
Impala: a dump truck. While it’s
unclear how the 62-year-old man
obtained the dump truck, video
posted to TikTok and Twitter
shows the dump truck accelerat-
ing and smashing into the one-
story home as several neighbors
look on in horror.
“What is he doing?” one person
yells, according to video.
After the dump truck backs up,
the vehicle then rams into multi-
ple cars parked along the street.
The dump truck reverses again
and pushes one of the damaged
parked cars into another person’s
yard, video shows. The dump
truck backs up again, this time
running over the hood of another
drawn many insults from the for-
mer president.
“Something is wrong with Mc-
Connell, and those Republican
Senators that Vote with him. PRI-
MARY THEM ALL!!!” Trump
posted on social media recently.
McCarthy was skeptical of Mc-
Connell’s choice to cut Trump off
entirely, and believes that he end-
ed up with better candidates in
the midterms than McConnell did
because he continued to work
with the ex-president and shape
his influence on GOP primaries,
according to a person familiar
with McCarthy’s thinking. (Sev-
eral more-extreme House Repub-
lican candidates lost in competi-
tive seats, however, including Joe
Kent in Washington and John
Gibbs in Michigan.)
Their dynamic will be shaped
by McCarthy’s tenuous hold on
his speakership, which is likely to
limit how much he can demand or
deliver in negotiations with the
Senate or the White House, which
are both controlled by Democrats.
While most Senate Republicans
would probably back the House
GOP on issues such as border
security and inflation, any spend-
ing cuts that target the Pentagon
or moves to default on the nation’s
debt obligations would most like-
ly fall flat, leaving House Republi-
cans without support.
McConnell needs to under-
stand the difficulties McCarthy
Constitution doesn’t prohibit
what you’re doing, even though a
statute doesn’t prohibit what
you’re doing, this court’s going to
prohibit your exercise of national
security authority. … Talk about
big steps.”
Still, Blatt’s arguments that the
government’s position against
immunity could lead to prosecu-
tions of sovereigns even in state
courts seemed to worry some
justices, including Sonia Soto-
mayor and Neil M. Gorsuch.
“States would be free to try to
bring lawsuits against Mexico for
this or that, or perhaps China
because of covid, or who knows
what a creative state prosecutor
might come up with,” Gorsuch
said.
Sotomayor similarly worried
about giving federal and state
prosecutors “unbridled power”
over charging other nations or
their entities.
Justice Department lawyer
Eric J. Feigin said the lower courts
got it right when they found that
the bank did not have immunity.
parked car.
“Stop, oh my gosh!” another
neighbor yells at the dump truck.
Neighbors told local media that
when he was done with the dump
truck, Ronald Dunn returned for
a third time, again in the Impala,
to inflict more damage and yell
obscenities at his wife and neigh-
bors.
“That was honestly the craziest
thing I have ever seen,” Megger-
son told KABC.
The sheriff’s department even-
tually came roughly 30 minutes
after the initial call, because the
first report was described as a
traffic collision instead of a crime,
according to local media.
The multiple attacks, including
with the dump truck, resulted in
faces in keeping his small House
majority together, Ryan said. “His
job is harder than mine [was],”
Ryan said of the speaker. “No two
ways about it.”
Adding to the potential diffi-
culty, McConnell has become a
villain for some of the harder-
right lawmakers in the House who
echo Trump and resent McCon-
nell’s vote for a $1.7 trillion federal
funding bill in December. McCar-
thy has done little to tamp down
some of that rhetoric as he seeks
to shore up support on his right
flank.
“There’s probably a group of
people who need to realize that
Kevin McCarthy is not Mitch Mc-
Connell,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.)
said after one of the many failed
speaker’s votes this month. “So I
think that’s probably one of the
bigger albatrosses that hangs over
[McCarthy], being associated
with the not-conservative actions
of people like Mitch.”
McCarthy’s balancing act
Unlike McConnell, McCarthy
has never before led his confer-
ence while in the majority, and he
has rarely been involved in ham-
mering out the bipartisan appro-
priations and other deals that
have emerged over the past three
years, given House Republicans’
near-unified opposition to them.
“He was never really in a posi-
tion where he had to line up votes
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The FSIA law that limits jurisdic-
tion does not apply to criminal
prosecutions, he said, and even if
it did, the case against Halkbank
would fit into the law’s exception
for misconduct involving com-
mercial activities.
Halkbank, Feigin said, is ask-
ing for a rule “under which any
foreign government-owned cor-
poration could become a clear-
inghouse for any federal crime,
including interfering in our elec-
tions, stealing our nuclear se-
crets, or something like here,
evading our sanctions and fun-
neling billions of dollars to an
embargoed nation, using our
banks, and lying to our regula-
tors.”
But Feigin hesitated when Jus-
tice Clarence Thomas asked,
“Could you have indicted the
country of Turkey itself as op-
posed to the bank?”
The lawyer acknowledged that
“there is a strong customary in-
ternational law principle against
prosecuting” another country.
But he said the U.S. government’s
the metal fence outside Patricia
Dunn’s home being bent to the
ground, according to KABC. She
told reporters that she blamed
authorities for not getting there
sooner and possibly preventing
some of the damage. She added
that she believes it was no coinci-
dence that the vehicles targeted
areas right outside her bedroom,
describing her estranged hus-
band as “a madman.”
“A man under that kind of rage
— who’s to say what he might do?”
she said to reporters. “He was
trying to kill me. He really was.”
She added, “I was just trying to
stay out of the way.”
Officials with the Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Department did
not immediately respond to re-
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as a matter of life or death because
… he was in the minority trying to
hold things together,” said former
congressman Peter T. King
(R-N.Y.).
Now that McCarthy has nabbed
the job, some in his caucus are
urging him to take a hard line
against McConnell and Senate
Democrats in fiscal negotiations.
McConnell has made it clear he
does not believe that the nation
should default on its debt obliga-
tions, while McCarthy has agreed
to push for spending cuts using a
potential default as leverage.
“Drive a hard bargain,” one of
the initial McCarthy holdouts,
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), said
when asked how he wanted the
speaker to approach his relation-
ship with McConnell. “He’s got to
take a hard line.”
McCarthy has already started
talking tough about Senate Re-
publicans. In December, he said
he would block the priorities of
Republican senators who backed
the omnibus spending bill — a
threat that rang hollow to many
GOP senators at the time and now,
after McCarthy’s tenuous hold on
his caucus became clear, is gener-
ating even less fear. After Sen.
John Cornyn (R-Tex.), speaking to
Punchbowl News, compared the
incident to a quick-passing
“spring thunderstorm” and re-
minded McCarthy that House leg-
islation will not necessarily pass a
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indictment in this case was repre-
sentative “of a rise of govern-
ment-owned corporations con-
cealing some very serious
crimes.”
Several justices raised the pos-
sibility of returning the case to
lower courts for a fuller review of
Halkbank’s claim of sovereign im-
munity. And Kavanaugh contin-
ued to advocate for a limited role
for courts in a case involving
issues of foreign policy and diplo-
macy.
“News reports suggest this was
discussed with President Erdo-
gan, that Turkey’s foreign minis-
ter is coming to the United States
this week,” Kavanaugh said, add-
ing “I don’t know about all of that.
But I do know that we don’t know
about all of that.”
“Yeah,” Blatt replied. “But I
know that you shouldn’t let 12
Manhattan jurors figure this out,
which is what you’re doing. You’re
letting them go to a jury and put a
foreign sovereign on trial.”
The case is Turkiye Halk
Bankasi v. United States.
quests for comment. Ronald
Dunn is not listed as being in
custody in the department’s on-
line database as of early Tuesday.
The sheriff’s department told
City News Service, a regional net-
work covering Southern Califor-
nia, that it could not comment on
the ongoing investigation into the
incident.
Patricia Dunn was fighting
through tears over the weekend in
acknowledging that she will prob-
ably have to sell her home. She
told KCAL that she fears what her
estranged husband might do next.
“I want to put it up for sale and
just move on, because I’m not
comfortable here anymore,” she
said. “I don’t know. He might
come back. Who’s to say he’s not?”
Democrat-controlled Senate, Mc-
Carthy fired back in a news con-
ference that the Senate had not
accomplished “anything” and
should not lecture him.
“I sat down with all the Repub-
lican senators and talked to them
about ways they could be more
productive,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy has often said in the
past that the Senate is like a coun-
try club and the House is like a
truck stop — and has suggested he
prefers the more populist chaos of
his chamber.
Yet behind closed doors, the
tone is friendlier. When McCarthy
visited the Senate Republican
lunch last month, McConnell be-
gan the meeting by saying the
whole group was pulling for him
to become speaker. And McCarthy
did not reiterate any of his threats,
instead saying that he “respects
the differences in the Senate and
the House, and he knows we’ve
got to have consensus over here of
60 votes,” according to Sen. Mike
Rounds (R-S.D.).
Ryan also faced pressure from
House Republicans during his
tenure to “bludgeon” McConnell
into getting rid of the filibuster to
push through more GOP legisla-
tion in the Senate. Ryan said he
believed that tensions were not as
high today and that House and
Senate Republicans would agree
on most issues, even if they dis-
agree on tactics.
Ryan said he never considered
distancing himself from McCon-
nell for political reasons, even
though some may have advised it
at the time. “You should be dura-
ble and loyal, not transactional,”
he said.
Boehner, a former Republican
House speaker who was also de-
scribed as gregarious and back-
slapping, wrote of McConnell in
his 2021 memoir that they had a
“great working relationship” but
that he was a “tough nut to crack.”
“I like to get along with people,
to have a few drinks and a few
laughs,” Boehner wrote. “Mitch
McConnell has a professional fa-
cade you cannot shake. It’s useless
to try to loosen things up with a
joke.” (Ryan disagreed, saying he
is fairly sure McConnell has
smiled at his jokes in the past.
“His smile is very faint,” Ryan said.
“You have to look for it.”)
Boehner quickly learned how
to irritate his counterpart, after
he ill-advisedly lectured the lead-
er on what he thought was going
on in his chamber. Boehner de-
scribed McConnell reprimanding
him with his “usual expression-
less face.”
“John, I’ll never presume to
know more about the House than
you do,” Boehner recalled McCon-
nell saying, before he walked
away. “And trust me, you’ll never
know as much about the Senate as
I do.”
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Dark money groups led Ohio to redefine gas as ‘green’

BY M AXINE J OSELOW
When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
(R) signed a bill this month to
legally redefine natural gas as a
source of “green energy,” support-
ers characterized it as the culmi-
nation of a grass-roots effort to
recognize the Buckeye state’s
largest energy source.
“It’s green. It’s clean. And it’s
abundant right under our feet,
right here in Ohio,” Rep. Troy
Balderson (R-Ohio) wrote in an
opinion piece in the Columbus
Dispatch.
But Ohio’s new law is anything
but homegrown, according to
documents reviewed by The
Washington Post. The Empower-
ment Alliance, a dark money
group with ties to the gas indus-
try, helped Ohio lawmakers push
the narrative that the fuel is
clean, the documents show. The
American Legislative Exchange
Council, or ALEC, another anony-
mously funded group, assisted in
the effort.
ALEC — a network of state
lawmakers, businesses and con-
servative donors — circulated
proposed legislation for Ohio
lawmakers and has urged other
states to follow suit, according to
the documents, which were ob-
tained via a public records re-
quest by the Energy and Policy
move resisted by the fossil fuel
industry on the federal, state and
local levels.
Last summer, the documents
show, a leader of the Empower-
ment Alliance emailed Ohio state
Sens. George Lang (R) and Mark
Romanchuk (R) to share a report
from Goldman Sachs on the “im-
portance of natural gas” in North
America and globally.
“We are on the right track with
natural gas is green energy,”
wrote Tom Rastin, who leads the
Empowerment Alliance with his
wife, Karen Buchwald Wright.
As of last fall, Rastin and his
wife were listed in Federal Elec-
tion Commission filings as execu-
tives at Ariel Corporation, a man-
ufacturer of natural gas compres-
sors. The couple also are major
Republican donors who have
dined with former president
Donald Trump. Under their lead-
ership, the alliance spent more
than $1 million supporting Ohio
Republicans in the 2022 election.
Both lawmakers thanked Ras-
tin for sending the report, with
Romanchuk remarking that it
highlighted “Ohio’s prominent
role” in energy production.
A week later, Lang emailed
Rastin from the annual ALEC
conference in Atlanta, saying he’d
be leaving the convention “with
some model legislation to define
purchasing amount of poultry
chicks from six to three.
But at the last minute, Republi-
cans tacked on unrelated amend-
ments aimed at assisting the fos-
sil fuel industry, including an-
other amendment that would
make it easier to drill for oil and
gas in state parks. By the time the
bill reached DeWine’s desk, it was
“stuffed” like a chicken, its back-
ers acknowledged.
The final version of the gas
amendment stated that “'green
energy’ includes energy generat-
ed by using natural gas as a
resource.” It added that an energy
source can be considered green if
it “is more sustainable and reli-
able relative to some fossil fuels,”
an apparent reference to gas’s
lower emissions than coal.
DeWine spokesman Dan Tier-
ney said that, for the governor,
the gas amendment was not
worth vetoing the entire bill.
“We do understand the criti-
cism of that language,” Tierney
said. “That was put in by the
General Assembly. It was not a
bill pushed by the administra-
tion.”
Tierney added that the gover-
nor’s office had completed a legal
review that found the gas amend-
ment did not tie the new defini-
tion of “green energy” to any state
funding or regulations.
In addition to circulating the
model bill, ALEC helped broad-
cast a talking point for its propo-
nents: The European Parliament
had recently voted to move ahead
with a plan to label nuclear power
and natural gas as “green” in
some circumstances, a response
to energy challenges created by
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Europe has now defined nu-
clear power and natural gas as
clean energy sources of energy.
And guess what? They are clean
energy sources,” Stephen Moore,
a conservative commentator, said
on a panel at the ALEC confer-
ence, drawing loud applause
from the audience.
“So what you need to do in your
states is change your renewable
energy requirements,” Moore
added. “If you don’t get rid of
them altogether, you should rede-
fine what clean energy is to in-
clude yes, clean nuclear power
and yes, natural gas.”
Romanchuk, the author of the
amendment that defined gas as
green, also looked across the
Atlantic for inspiration. In a De-
cember email, one of his aides
acknowledged that his amend-
ment was “inspired by a Euro-
pean Union vote last summer to
classify natural gas as green en-
ergy.”
It was not immediately clear if
the Europe talking point origi-
nated with ALEC or Ohio law-
makers, or whether the ALEC
model bill exactly mirrored the
gas amendment. But in the
emails, one aide to Romanchuk,
Adam Landefeld, spelled out the
possible benefits to Ohio indus-
tries.
The language, he said, could
help gas companies in Ohio meet
environmental, social and gov-
ernance (ESG) investing stan-
dards. The amendment is an “anti
ESG move that will help Gas users
in our state,” he wrote.
The Empowerment Alliance,
meanwhile, has barely paused to
celebrate its victory in Ohio. The
group is already targeting other
energy-rich states, according to a
newsletter with the subject line
“Ohio is Red, Gas is Blue, and
Green too!” sent to supporters on
Friday.
“States like Texas, Louisiana,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia are
top energy producing states,” the
group wrote in the newsletter.
“They should follow suit, encour-
aging their local and state law-
makers to enact similar legisla-
tion.”
The Empowerment Alliance is
also urging more officials to sign
its “Declaration of Energy Inde-
pendence,” which states that “af-
fordable, clean and abundant en-
ergy is the birthright of every
American.” So far, nearly 1,200
people have signed, including
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.) and House Majority
Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.).

Institute, a group that advocates
for renewable energy.
“What the emails reveal is just
how closely Ohio lawmakers co-
ordinated with a natural gas in-
dustry group on the new law that
This is not 
… that natural gas is clean en-
ergy.”
ALEC is known for drafting
and disseminating “model” state
legislation that tends to advance
conservative, pro-business priori-

misleadingly defines methane
gas as green energy, as the first
step of a plan to introduce similar
legislation in multiple states,”
said Dave Anderson, policy and
communications manager for the
Energy and Policy Institute.
Although Ohio Republicans
say they are trying to promote
their state’s energy industry, crit-
ics have called the new law mis-
leading and “Orwellian.” Unlike
renewable energy sources such as
wind and solar power, natural gas
and other fossil fuels emit signifi-
cant amounts of greenhouse gas-
es. Leading scientists have said
the world must rapidly phase out
fossil fuels to avert the worst
consequences of unchecked cli-
mate change.
The law also adds to a fierce
linguistic debate, one amped up
by the recent furor over gas stoves
and their health impacts. Climate
activists have urged politicians
and journalists to stop using the
term “natural gas” and instead
use the phrase “methane gas,”
since its primary component is a
powerful planet-warming pollut-
ant.
The debate in Ohio comes as
President Biden seeks to halve
the nation’s greenhouse gas emis-
sions by the end of the decade
compared with 2005 levels, a
a smartphone.
ties. Several high-profile corpo-
rate members, however, have cut
ties with the group over what
they see as its opposition to
climate action, including Google,
BP and Facebook.
As nonprofits, ALEC and the
Empowerment Alliance are not
required to disclose their donors, This is a magnet that draws companies and customers
part of the influx of dark money
in American politics. ALEC and
Lang did not respond to requests closer. A remarkable entryway into real-time information
for comment. Romanchuk de-
clined to comment through a and unprecedented insight. Making it possible to move
spokesman.
Anthony Conchel, a spokes-
man for the Empowerment Alli- business forward at an unprecedented pace. This is
ance (TEA), said in an email that
“Natural Gas is Green is not an not just smart. This is what could change everything,
original TEA idea” and noted that
natural gas has lower carbon
dioxide emissions than coal, the
for those who believe they can change anything.
dirtiest fossil fuel, helping the
nation reduce some emissions.
“In our view, that is the very
definition of green energy,”
Conchel said.
Go there. Start here.
‘Guess what? They are clean’
The legislative language that
defined gas as green took an
unusual path through the Ohio
Senate, where it was an amend-
ment to a bill focused on poultry
purchases. Dubbed the “chicken
bill,” the legislation originally
sought to lower the minimum

Colleges seek to undo

student loan settlement
BY D ANIELLE
D OUGLAS- G ABRIEL
A group of colleges is trying to
overturn a $6 billion settlement
between the Biden administration
and student loan borrowers who
say they were defrauded by their
schools, claiming that the deal vio-
lates the law.
Everglades College, American
National University and Lincoln
Educational Services, the parent
company of Lincoln Technical In-
stitutes, filed an appeal to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 9th Cir-
cuit and a motion to halt the settle-
ment pending appeal Friday.
The schools are among 153 in-
stitutions — many of which are
for-profit colleges — that the Edu-
cation Department said had en-
gaged in “substantial misconduct
. . . whether credibly alleged or in
some instances proven.” Former
students of those schools who ap-
plied for debt relief are entitled to
full loan forgiveness under the
settlement.
The agreement resolves a class-
action lawsuit filed in 2018 by
people who accused the depart-
ment of ignoring their applica-
tions for loan forgiveness through
a federal program known as bor-
rower defense to repayment. It
provides automatic relief, includ-
ing refunds of money paid to the
federal agency and credit repair, to
some 200,000 people. Another
group of about 64,000 borrowers,
who attended schools that are not
on the department’s list, is entitled
to receive decisions on their appli-
cations on rolling deadlines.
The colleges appealing the
agreement had objected to the
terms in July before court approv-
al, saying the deal did not assess
the validity of the borrowers’
claims and would damage their
reputations. Adding to those argu-
ments, the schools said in their
recent motion that the Education
Department is also violating fed-
eral procedures by circumventing
its own rules for resolving borrow-
er defense claims. They also say
the department lacks the authori-
ty to grant widespread debt can-
cellation, an argument raised in
the lawsuits seeking to overturn
President Biden’s debt relief pro-
gram.
“The department has under-
mined the rule of law, violated its
own regulations, exceeded its
statutory authority, and denied
due process to institutions like
ours, implying we had done some-
thing wrong,” Lincoln Education-
al Services wrote in a statement
Tuesday. It said each former stu-
dent’s claim should be assessed
individually — and would prob-
ably be denied.
A statement from Everglades
College, the parent entity of Keiser
University and Everglades Univer-
sity, echoed those points. Ameri-
can National University did not
respond to requests for comment,
and neither did the Education De-
partment.
“This appeal demonstrates just
how desperate these schools are to
deny justice for borrowers, and we
will not stop fighting until stu-
dents get the relief they deserve,”
said Eileen Connor, director of the
Project on Predatory Student
Lending, a group representing the
borrowers.
Connor said that the court’s de-
cision to approve the settlement is
“clear and unequivocal” and that
she is confident the 9th Circuit
will agree the claims brought by advisory | tax | assurance
the schools are without merit.
U.S. District Judge William Al-
sup of the Northern District of
California, who approved the set-
tlement in November, on Tuesday
set a conference call for Jan. 26 to
discuss the motion and schedule a
hearing.
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As board meetings spiral, local o∞cials halt public comment
SPEAKERS FROM A1
cept of acknowledging true ques-
tions our community has. That’s
vital. That’s what I’ve spent my
entire adult life doing,” said
Rochester Mayor Kim Norton, a
former school board member and
Democratic state lawmaker. But,
she added: “Do I think we have an
obligation to have the same per-
sonal attacks be made week after
week, year after year? No.”
The efforts to moderate public
comment — and audience out-
bursts that can accompany it —
are taking place in both red and
blue regions as elected officials
cope with what the American
Association of School Adminis-
trators, the School Superinten-
dents Association and the Na-
tional School Boards Association
have referred to as rising threats
of violence and aggression at
community meetings.
But some legal experts and
lawmakers worry some restric-
tions are overreactions by thin-
skinned officials that skirt un-
constitutional limitations on free
speech. Even if legal, they argue,
reining in comment runs con-
trary to the American ideal of
letting the public express views
to representatives chosen and
funded by taxpayers — even if
those views include threats, big-
otry and falsehoods.
“Access to public meetings and
that face-to-face, whether virtual
or in-person, opportunity for the
citizenry to talk to their elected
officials is foundational to our
democracy,” said Carol Rose, ex-
ecutive director of the ACLU of
Massachusetts. Her organization
filed a brief in support of a
challenge, which was recently
heard by the state Supreme
Court, to the public participation
policy of the town of Southbor-
ough’s select board.
That case stemmed from a
2018 meeting at which a resident,
citing a state finding that the
board had violated open meeting
law, accused members of “break-
ing the law” and then, when its
chair ended public comment,
called him “a Hitler.” The resi-
dent argues the policy, which
prohibits “rude, personal or slan-
derous remarks,” was unconstitu-
tionally deployed to avoid criti-
cism. The town says it is reason-
able to maintain order.
Elected councils and boards
generally are not required to hold
in-person public comment ses-
sions, but most see it as best
practice. Rules vary: Many set
time limits, prohibit applause or
signs, and restrict comments to
agenda items. Others let speakers
opine on whatever they wish.
Members often do not respond
substantively to avoid lengthy
debates. A growing number, the
ACLU says, instruct speakers to
be civil and refrain from personal
attacks.
Francisco Negron, the chief
legal officer for the National
School Boards Association, said
he advises members that time
and topic limits are generally
fine, as is limiting speaking op-
portunities to locals at a time
when curriculum debates often
draw national activists. Smaller
citizen advisory groups can also
help give constituents other fo-
rums to air concerns, he said.
But generally, Negron said, he
tells boards: Parents care deeply
about children, so let them have
their say.
“If a person is impassioned, a
person is loud, a person is visibly
shaken, those things are all okay
in the public sphere, as long as
there’s no actual physical safety
threat,” he said. When it comes to
Ana Walshe’s husband, Brian, is
charged with murder in her killing
BY D AN R OSENZWEIG- Z IFF,
B RITTANY S HAMMAS
AND M ARISA I ATI
Brian Walshe has been charged
with murder in the killing of his
wife, Ana Walshe, nearly two
weeks after she was reported miss-
ing, a case that has drawn national
attention after he bought hun-
dreds of dollars’ worth of cleaning
supplies and allegedly misled in-
vestigators about his whereabouts.
Norfolk County, Mass., District
Attorney Michael W. Morrissey
announced the murder charge
Tuesday and said more details
probably will be available at a
Wednesday hearing.
Ana Walshe, 39, was reported
missing Jan. 4. Her husband told
police that three days earlier, she
woke him up at their Boston-area
home, saying she had to fly to D.C.
for a work emergency, according
to an affidavit obtained by the
Boston Globe. He said she kissed
him goodbye about 6 or 7 a.m. and
told him to go back to sleep.
It was the last time anyone
People opposed to a covid-19 mandate are escorted out of a Clark County school board meeting in Las Vegas in August 2021. Across the nation, elected officials are restricting
public comment at meetings to control what they say is an unprecedented level of invective, misinformation and disorder from citizen speakers.
false comments: “It’s democracy.
Everybody in this country has the
right to their opinion.”
But the policies are being test-
ed at a time of increased — and
impassioned — interest in local
politics.
In Indiana, a school board
suspended public comment in
2021 after raucous meetings, in-
cluding one at which an audience
member’s gun fell from his pock-
et. Last year, state lawmakers
overwhelmingly passed a bill for-
bidding that option. School
boards must now offer time for
oral public comment at all meet-
ings, though they are permitted
to take “reasonable steps to
maintain order.”
“Parents deserve to have their
voices heard when it comes to
their children’s education,” state
“We could suspend public comment.
But it’s not something we ever want to do.”
Michael Mathews, president of the school board in Greeley, Colo.
Rep. Tim O’Brien (R), the bill’s
sponsor, said in an email. “It’s
terrible public policy to make
decisions in a vacuum.”
Federal courts have offered
mixed guidance, legal experts say.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
Americans’ right to criticize pub-
lic officials. But those officials
may impose neutral limits in
settings such as town council
meetings — limiting speakers’
time and the topics to be ad-
dressed, for example. Courts have
been less consistent about
whether rules policing vaguer
notions, such as decorum, are
acceptable.
“What does rude mean? What
does courteous mean?” said at-
reported seeing her.
Walshe, 47, had already been
charged with misleading police
who are investigating Ana
Walshe’s disappearance. They say
he did not disclose a Jan. 1 trip to
Home Depot, where he used cash
to buy $450 worth of cleaning sup-
plies. Police were unable to verify
some of his whereabouts that day.
He has pleaded not guilty to a
charge of misleading a police in-
vestigation and has been in cus-
tody in the Norfolk County jail.
Walshe will be transported to
Quincy District Court on Wednes-
day for his arraignment, accord-
ing to the district attorney’s office.
“Additional details of the inves-
tigation and the evidence in sup-
port of those charges are likely to
be presented at the arraignment
but will not be disclosed at this
time,” Morrissey said in a video
announcing the charges.
Tracy Miner, Walshe’s attorney,
said in the arraignment for that
charge that Walshe has cooperat-
ed with the investigation, giving
several interviews to investiga-
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torney Ruth Bourquin of the
ACLU of Massachusetts, which
was joined by a free-market
group, Pioneer Legal, in its oppo-
sition to the Southborough pol-
icy.
It has left board and council
chairs and their attorneys to
navigate gray legal terrain while
trying to get through agenda
items.
In Greeley, Colo., things grew
especially heated in September,
when a woman read a passage
from a book that she complained
was in school libraries: Toni Mor-
rison’s “The Bluest Eye,” one of
nation’s most challenged books,
according to the American Li-
brary Association. It graphically
describes a father’s rape of his
young daughter.
Superintendent Deirdre Pilch
faulted the woman for “trying to
horrify” the audience, which in-
cluded students. A board mem-
ber tearfully suggested suspend-
ing public comment.
The board did not seriously
consider that, said its president,
Michael Mathews. But Mathews,
a Presbyterian minister, said
members did consult with attor-
neys about where constitutional
protections end.
“It’s been difficult to know
what to rule ‘out of order,’” he
said. “We could suspend public
comment. But it’s not something
we ever want to do. We want to
hear from our public.”
In December, speakers were
allowed a single spot of three
tors and consenting to searches of
his property and his cellphone.
She declined to comment on the
murder charge Tuesday.
Ana Walshe traveled weekly for
her job as a regional general man-
ager in the D.C. office of real estate
investment firm Tishman Speyer.
According to the Boston Globe, she
was born in Serbia, where she at-
tended college before working in
hospitality in D.C. and Massachu-
setts, according to her LinkedIn
profile. The Walshes have three
children ages 2 to 6, authorities
said.
According to charging docu-
ments filed in the misleading-po-
lice case, Brian Walshe told investi-
gators that the couple had hosted a
friend for a New Year’s Eve dinner
at their Cohasset, Mass., home.
Walshe told investigators that
after his wife left for a work emer-
gency the next day, he spent Jan. 1
running errands at two grocery
stores and a CVS. He had been on
home confinement while await-
ing sentencing in a federal fraud
conviction involving phony Andy
minutes each. Things went off
the rails almost immediately.
The first speaker called the
board “tyrants and criminals …
pushing pornography on chil-
dren.” Mathews sunnily thanked
him for his comments. The sec-
ond presented a stack of papers
she said were district complaint
forms about books that “violate
federal obscenity laws.” Several
other attendees filed to the front
of the room, where they dropped
thousands more forms on the
floor as a security guard hovered.
When the superintendent
called for a recess to clear what
she referred to as “trash,” half the
room erupted. “You’re trash!” a
man yelled. Mathews pounded
his gavel, calling a recess.
The board returned minutes
later, and comments resumed.
“You want us to go away?”
asked one speaker, Candice Saw-
yer. “Then take what we’re doing
and understand that we’re upset,
and we’re growing in numbers.”
A man called the new policy
“anti-constitutional” and said he
would ignore it. A woman
screamed that board members
were “disgusting.”
Mathews called a second re-
cess, then adjourned the meeting
early after audience members
again shouted while the superin-
tendent reported on her efforts to
address complaints about books.
When the board returned this
month, speakers had two min-
utes each, an additional uni-
formed officer was present, and
audience chairs were rearranged
so that anyone approaching the
dais would need to pass a security
officer.
“It is perfectly legal for some-
one to come and call me disgust-
ing,” Mathews said. “The prob-
lem is the behavior — and by
people who are not speaking.”
Brian Walshe stands during his arraignment in Quincy, Mass, on
Jan. 9 to face a charge of misleading a police investigation.
Warhol art. Walshe was allowed to
leave his house with the court’s
permission, but it was not clear
Tuesday whether he had permis-
sion for those errands.
At least six police officers spent
a day driving around to try to
verify parts of Walshe’s New Year’s
Day trip, prosecutors said, but his
story did not check out. They said
that Walshe was not recorded on
surveillance cameras at stores he
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Zoom-only meetings remain an
option if disruptions continue, he
added. “We can’t just keep post-
poning reports that we’re receiv-
ing or business that we need to
attend to.”
In Rochester, City Council
President Brooke Carlson said
one of her primary concerns is
making sure meetings remain
welcoming to people of all view-
points and identities. The coun-
cil’s once-monthly limit on com-
menting has helped, she said,
though it did not please regular
speakers.
“You are supposed to be serv-
ants of the people,” one, Othelmo
da Silva, told the board, accord-
ing to a video of the meeting.
“You should be here to listen to us
for as long as you need to, be-
cause we are technically your
bosses.”
That is a view shared by Barry
Sanders, a city council member in
Taunton, Mass. Last fall, the
council briefly suspended public
input after a speaker chastised a
council member by name over a
dispute that began on social me-
dia, violating a requirement that
comments be “respectful, courte-
ous and not personal in nature.”
Sanders opposed the suspension.
“That’s what the First Amend-
ment speaks to: the right of the
public to have their grievances
heard. Not the right of the public
to say nice things about their
elected officials,” Sanders said.
A local progressive group,
Taunton Diversity Network, was
also concerned. The council has
now settled on a policy that limits
speaking time and prohibits
threats or incitement, but also
eliminates the civility require-
ments.
In Oregon, the Aug. 9 Salem-
Keizer school board’s comment
session began with the usual
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said he had visited and that he
could produce no receipts to
prove that he had bought any-
thing.
While investigators were able
to verify Walshe’s trip to a juice
bar, they said they discovered that
he had also stopped at a Home
Depot that day. Surveillance video
from the store shows Walshe
wearing a black surgical mask and
blue surgical gloves and buying
. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
guidance from its chair: Speakers
chosen at random would have
three minutes each. Disruptions
such as fighting, vulgarity or hate
speech might get you ejected.
Meetings had been tense for
months, and this one was no
different. When one woman re-
ferred to the memoir “Gender
Queer” as “cartoon pornography,”
shouts erupted from the audi-
ence, prompting the board’s at-
torney to deem the comment
“First Amendment-protected
speech.” Crowd members protest-
ed: “That was hate speech!” a
man yelled.
Friction rose as speakers of-
fered dueling comments on a
proposed ban on weapons on
school properties. Other speak-
ers condemned the “school-to-
prison pipeline” and accused
some audience and board mem-
bers of being “white suprema-
cists.”
Animus between speakers
spilled into the parking lot and
came close to physical confronta-
tion, according to a later investi-
gation by the district’s safety
manager, who recommended in-
person meetings and comment
be halted for safety purposes.
Perry, the superintendent, said
she agreed — but not happily.
“It used to be, ‘Come in, sign
up. We’ll call on you.’ No big deal,
right?” Perry said. That changed
during the pandemic, she said.
“You want that personal con-
nection, so I think that is what’s
missing when the public is not in
the room,” said Perry, who is
retiring this year. “I think I’ve
been known for that over my
career and saying, ‘How can we
bring this together and find that
common ground?’ And I haven’t
really figured that out yet. … We
are living in really polarized
times.”
mops, tarps, drop cloths and other
cleaning supplies, prosecutors
say.
Prosecutor Lynn Beland said at
this month’s arraignment that a
cellphone had pinged in their
home on Jan. 1 and 2 — after
Walshe said his wife had left the
Boston area. Beland suggested
that Walshe had intentionally
tried to distract investigators.
A search of the couple’s home,
prosecutors have said, turned up
blood in the basement and a
bloody, partly damaged knife.
In August 2014, before they
married, Walshe told D.C. police
that Brian Walshe had threatened
to kill her and a friend, according
to an incident report. No charges
were filed.
David Traub, a spokesperson
for the Norfolk district attorney’s
office, told The Post last week that
investigators had collected sev-
eral items that would be tested to
determine whether they can serve
as evidence. He did not provide
additional information about
what was found.
On Tuesday, he had little more
to add.
“There’s been no large-scale re-
covery of remains,” he said.
Meryl Kornfield contributed to this
report.
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Plot against N.M. Democrats criticized as new details arise

PEÑA FROM A1
Peña “provided firearms and
cash payments and personally
participated in at least one shoot-
ing,” the documents said. They
alleged he intended to cause “seri-
ous injury or death” to the people
inside their homes, the docu-
ments said. The group allegedly
stole at least two cars used in the
incidents, police said.
One of the targets of the attack
said the shootings were part of a
lineage of violence that stems
from Trump’s false claims of a
stolen election and that includes
the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Capitol.
“You think it wouldn’t happen
here, that someone would do this
to local officials,” said former Ber-
nalillo commissioner Debbie
O’Malley, whose home was shot at
Dec. 11. “There’s been this narra-
tive for a long time: If you don’t
get your way, it’s okay to be vio-
lent. The message came from the
top. It came from Trump.”
According to the charging doc-
uments, the most recent incident
occurred Jan. 3, when at least a
dozen rounds were fired into the
Albuquerque home of state Sen.
Linda Lopez (D).
Lopez told police she had ini-
tially thought the loud bangs she
heard just after midnight were
fireworks. But in the middle of the
night, her 10-year-old daughter
awoke thinking a spider had
crawled across her face and won-
dering why her bed felt like it was
filled with sand.
At daybreak, Lopez noticed
holes in the house that made her
suspect gunfire. After realizing
that it was drywall dust from
bullet holes that had awakened
her daughter, she called the au-
thorities, according to the charg-
ing papers. The documents also
allege that Peña personally par-
ticipated in the Lopez shooting
because he was displeased that
prior shootings had aimed “so
high up on the walls.”
Peña brought an automatic ri-
fle to Lopez’s home, but it jammed
during the incident and did not
fire, according to the documents.
Police accused Peña of orches-
trating similar attacks in Decem-
ber on the Albuquerque homes of
New Mexico state Rep. Javier
Martinez, Bernalillo County Com-
New Mexico state Sen. Linda Lopez (D) shows bullet holes after her home was shot Jan. 3. New details
released Tuesday reveal that her 10-year-old daughter was awakened by drywall dust from the bullets.
missioner Adriann Barboa and
O’Malley, who at the time was also
a county commissioner. They did
not say whether the gunfire at
those homes came close to strik-
ing anyone. Lopez, Martinez and
Barboa could not be reached for
comment.
Before his run for office, Peña
served nearly seven years in
prison on convictions related to a
smash-and-grab scheme that
included burglary, larceny and
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor.
In an interview, Albuquerque
Police Chief Harold Medina said
he has no doubt that Peña was
motivated by Trump’s false claims
of election fraud following the
former president’s 2020 defeat.
Medina said Peña regularly ex-
pressed extreme views on social
media and boasted of attending
Trump’s Stop the Steal rally in
Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The individual that we’re
charging believed in that con-
spiracy,” Medina said. “He did
believe that his election was un-
fair and he did escalate and resort
to violence as a means to find
justice.”
Medina said federal law en-
forcement is also investigating
potential federal firearms viola-
tions related to the shootings, as
well as whether Peña participated
in the Jan. 6 riots. An FBI spokes-
man said the agency is assisting
local authorities in their investi-
gation and declined to comment
further.
Trump spokesman Steven Che-
ung called it “appalling that some
people would use this tragedy to
try to score cheap political points.
President Trump had nothing to
do with this and any assertion
otherwise is totally reprehensi-
ble.”
Lawyers for Peña and two of his
alleged co-conspirators, Demitrio
Trujillo and Jose Trujillo, could
not be reached for comment.
Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller
(D) said Peña visited all four tar-
gets’ homes in the days leading up
to the attacks, seeking to per-
suade them that the result of his
election had been rigged. “What’s
absolutely disturbing and terrify-
ing is that he went from that to
literally contracting felons who
were out on warrant to shoot up
their houses,” Keller said. “That’s
the leap he took within a matter of
days.”
Keller said it is not clear why
Peña did not target his opponent,
Democratic state Rep. Miguel
Garcia. He said police have col-
ADOLPHE PIERRE-LOUIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
lected an overwhelming amount
of evidence, including shell cas-
ings found at the crime scenes
and in the recovered stolen vehi-
cles as well as texted instructions,
including the targets’ addresses,
from Peña to his alleged co-con-
spirators.
Colorado Secretary of State
Jena Griswold, an outspoken crit-
ic of the threatening rhetoric of
election deniers and a target of
frequent online attacks, called on
Republicans to condemn the vio-
lence in Albuquerque and urged
voters to reject candidates who
don’t.
She cited the plot to kidnap
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
as well as the more recent attack
on Paul Pelosi, former House
speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband,
as other troubling recent exam-
ples of political violence.
“It’s horrific,” Griswold said.
“There are so many people who
have to look over their shoulder
living in fear in an atmosphere of
political violence. As a nation
we’re just lucky that the bullets
didn’t land.”
Some Republicans joined in
the condemnations. Ryan Lane,
the New Mexico House Republi-
can leader, praised law enforce-
ment for their quick investiga-
tion. “New Mexico House Repub-
licans condemn violence in any
form and are grateful no one was
injured,” Lane said.
The Republican Party of New
Mexico issued a statement late
Tuesday that made no mention of
Peña’s candidacy or his denial of
election results, but said the accu-
sations against him “are serious,
and he should be held account-
able if the charges are validated in
court.”
The incident also prompted a
new push for gun control. In
Santa Fe, New Mexico Gov. Mi-
chelle Lujan Grisham (D) called
for a ban on assault weapons in an
address to the state legislature on
the first day of its 2023 session.
“There are elected officials in this
room today whose homes were
shot at in despicable acts of politi-
cal violence,” she said.
Peña allegedly conspired with
four other men, according to the
charging documents, hatching a
plan to steal cars to use during the
attacks and then abandon them.
Subsequent investigations of sto-
len vehicles found with matching
shell casings appear to confirm
that plan, the police said.
Police said they examined the
cellphone of one of the alleged
co-conspirators, Demitrio Trujil-
lo, and found that Peña had sent
him the addresses of the targets,
and that Trujillo had then
searched for the addresses on his
phone.
Peña started organizing the
shootings soon after the election,
according to the police report. On
Nov. 12, he texted Barboa’s ad-
dress to Trujillo. A week and a half
later, Peña texted Trujillo a pas-
sage from an unknown book.
“It was only the additional in-
centive of a threat of civil war that
empowered a president to com-
plete the reformist project,” the
text read.
On Dec. 8, Peña sent the ad-
dress of Martinez, whose home
was attacked that night, and that
of O’Malley. The texts between
Peña and Trujillo contained plans
to meet in parking lots, stores and
fast food restaurants, according
to the police report.
The charging documents also
recounted the recollections of an
unnamed confidential informant
who said that Peña was not happy
that the shootings would take
place late at night, when they
were less likely to injury anyone.
“Solomon wanted the shoot-
ings to be more aggressive” and
“wanted them to aim lower and
shoot around 8PM because occu-
pants would more likely not be
laying down,” according to the
documents.
According to the documents,
Jose Trujillo was arrested less
than an hour after the Lopez
shooting and just a few miles
away, after he was pulled over for
an expired registration in a Nis-
san Maxima registered to Peña. In
addition to two weapons found in
the trunk, police found 800 pills
believed to be counterfeit Oxy-
codone as well as cash. Police also
discovered that Trujillo had a
warrant out for his arrest.
Police said Peña paid his
co-conspirators at least $500 for
their roles.
O’Malley told The Washington
Post that Peña visited her home
on Nov. 10, days after he lost the
election.
“He was agitated and aggres-
sive and upset that he did not
win,” O’Malley said. Peña told
O’Malley that he had knocked on
tons of doors across his district,
which should have led to him
winning more votes. She rebuffed
his request that she sign a docu-
ment alleging the election was
fraudulent, so he left.
A week later, on Dec. 11, a loud
pop — “like a fist just banging on
our front door,” she said — woke
up her and her husband. There
were four more bangs. “Oh my
goodness, gunshots,” she remem-
bered thinking.
No one was injured, but 12
shots were fired at her house.
O’Malley said that because her
grandchildren often sleep over,
she now worries what could have
happened if they had been there.
She said she also worries about
what the attacks mean for democ-
racy.
“Someone has threatened my
home and feels that it’s okay to
shoot at my home where my fam-
ily is because they didn’t get their
way,” she said. “I absolutely blame
election denialism and Trump. I
couldn’t tell you what the solution
is.”
Devlin Barrett, Isaac Arnsdorf and
Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Harvard Medical exits the U.S. News rankings, citing ‘perverse incentives’
BY S USAN S VRLUGA
AND N ICK A NDERSON
Harvard Medical School will
no longer provide data to U.S.
News & World Report for its
surveys and rankings of best
medical schools, its dean an-
nounced Tuesday, a decision that
echoes that of prominent law
schools in rejecting the influen-
tial ranking system in recent
weeks.
George Q. Daley, dean of the
faculty of medicine at Harvard
University, wrote in a message to
the school that the ranking sys-
tem creates “perverse incentives
for institutions to report mis-
leading or inaccurate data,” sets
flawed policies or diverts finan-
cial aid from needy students to
boost rankings.
Harvard Medical School is
ranked No. 1 in the country for
research by U.S. News.
In November, Heather K.
Gerken, the dean of the perenni-
ally top-ranked law school, Yale
Law School, spurred a revolt
when she announced that it
would no longer participate in
the “profoundly flawed” rank-
ings because they disincentiv-
ized programs supporting
public-interest careers and need-
based financial aid — undermin-
ing what she called the core
commitments of the legal profes- students make the best decisions vard Business School, Mark Cau- sity’s medical school is still send-
sion. for their educational futures. tela, said in a statement Tuesday ing information to U.S. News, a
Harvard Law School quickly “We know that comparing di- that the school will continue to spokesperson for Johns Hopkins
followed, and then most of the verse academic institutions take part in several rankings, Medicine said, “but, as we do
highest-ranked law schools na- across a common data set is including those issued by U.S. each year, we will consider our
tionally also pulled out, prompt- challenging,” he said, “and that is News. The school is tied for fifth future participation.”
ing U.S. News to scramble to why we have consistently stated in the U.S. News list of best Through a Harvard Medical
change its formula for judging that the rankings should be one business schools. School spokesperson, Daley de-
legal education. component in a prospective stu- The rankings have long been clined to comment beyond the
Several deans said the publica- dent’s decision-making process. controversial, but they remain rationale in his statement.
tion’s changes were insufficient The fact is, millions of prospec- enormously influential to stu- Daley wrote that he had con-
to lure them back; Gerken said tive students annually visit U.S. dents weighing where to apply. sidered this decision since be-
having a window into the publi- News medical school rankings Among several highly ranked coming dean six years ago, and
cations’ operations “cemented” because we provide students medical schools The Washington believed that rankings could not
her decision. with valuable data and solutions Post contacted Tuesday, none re- “meaningfully reflect” the medi-
Eric Gertler, the chief execu- to help with that process.” vealed immediate plans to follow cal school’s aspirations for “edu-
tive of U.S. News, said in a Within Harvard, there are con- the lead of their counterparts at cational excellence, graduate
statement Tuesday that their flicting views on U.S. News rank- Harvard. Some declined to take a preparedness, and compassion-
mission is to help prospective ings. A spokesman for the Har- position. Johns Hopkins Univer- ate and equitable patient care.”

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Falling population may stall Xi’s ‘national rejuvenation’

CHINA FROM A1 nese people who live in large come attractive because it is
cities, many of whom have radi- perceived as a stable career.
rapidly aging society will under- cally different beliefs about mar- Officials also announced Tues-
cut Beijing’s vision of itself as an riage and giving birth compared day that gross domestic product
ascendant power poised to over- with those of their parents’ gen- grew by only 3 percent last year,
take the United States. A loss of eration. Other oft-cited concerns as regular disruptions from “zero
economic dynamism undercuts include lower wages for women covid” policies hurt consumption
the country’s current cheap, la- after giving birth and a lack of at the same time that the critical
bor-reliant development model, easily available child care. real estate sector contracted. The
while the lack of a robust social In recent months, local gov- expansion was drastically small-
security net or pension system ernments have adopted support er than the 5.5 percent that
could “evolve into a humanitari- measures to alleviate these finan- authorities had targeted. Unem-
an catastrophe,” he said. cial burdens. Shanghai last year ployment among 16-to-24-year-
The danger for Chinese leader gave mothers an additional 60 olds remained high, at 16.7 per-
Xi Jinping is that his pursuit of days of maternity leave on top of cent for the year, after reaching
“national rejuvenation” ends in state-mandated time off; paterni- nearly 20 percent in July.
economic stagnation similar to ty leave was extended to 10 days. Now, with zero-covid policies
that which has plagued Japan Shenzhen on Tuesday became the lifted in December, China’s econ-
since the 1990s. The East Asian latest Chinese city to give out omy is showing signs of rebound-
nation, once considered a bud- subsidies of 10,000 yuan ($1,476) ing, a shift that could prevent a
ding rival to the United States, is for couples who have a third global recession. Growth for this
now the oldest society in the child. year is forecast to top 4 percent,
world, with 29 percent of the Many believe far more is need- according to the World Bank.
population over 65. With a com- ed. Writing on Weibo, a Chinese But the harsh lockdowns add-
parably contracting workforce, social media platform, economist ed to the malaise among young
China, too, could fall short of its Ren Zeping called for immediate Chinese people. A video of a
ambition to become a global policies to encourage birth such Shanghai resident telling corona-
leader. as subsidies for childbirth, inclu- virus prevention workers that
For decades, Chinese leaders sion of fertility treatment in so- “we are the last generation” went
have heeded the warning that cial insurance and better guaran- viral in May, with many online
demography is destiny — and tees of employment for women. saying how the phrase captured a
adopted extreme policies in re- “Population is the most impor- sense of desperation they, too,
sponse. Starting in the 1970s, tant and most easily overlooked felt about the lack of a desirable ANDY WONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Communist leaders’ fears of an future issue” facing China, he future into which they might A man carries his grandchild at a Beijing photo studio. China’s aging population and lack of a robust
expanding population outstrip- said. bring offspring. social safety net or pension system could mean “humanitarian catastrophe,” one scholar said.
ping the food supply led to a Working professionals also The same phrase was posted
campaign of telling couples to face fewer and less attractive job widely on Weibo in response to
marry later, wait between chil- prospects as China’s decades of Tuesday’s announcement of a
dren and have fewer offspring rapid economic growth come to population decline.
overall. The birthrate fell dra- an end. Amid government crack-
matically. downs on technology industries Pei-Lin Wu and Vic Chiang in Taipei,
But the Chinese leadership and excessive wealth, working as Taiwan, and Lyric Li in Seoul
remained terrified of an over- a civil servant has suddenly be- contributed to this report.
sized population. Its solution was
the draconian one-child policy,
implemented in 1980. The policy China’s population has fallen for the first
resulted in mass forced abor- time since 1961
tions, sterilizations and the in- Annual change in population
sertion of intrauterine devices.
Among the policy’s many un-
intended consequences has been 20M
a steep gender imbalance, as
pregnant women had sex-selec-
tive abortions. That resulted in
China having a sex ratio of 104.69 10M
men to every 100 women as of
2022.
A society built around the
single-child household also pro-
0
vides only limited child-care sup-
port. In multiple surveys, respon- China’s population fell in 2022
dents regularly cite the rising by more than half a million
costs of a large family as the
primary reason not to have more 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
children.
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Mounted police help break up demonstrations near Lützerath, a village in western Germany that authorities razed to clear the way to expand a gaping open-pit coal mine.
A muddy situation for police at anti-coal protest
Thunberg detained as
activists in Germany
continue demonstration
BY L OVEDAY M ORRIS
berlin — Police dressed in black
riot gear writhe in the thick
brown mud, struggling to dis-
lodge their feet from the quag-
mire. As several officers crawl
toward a patch of grass, a climate
activist dressed in a brown
shroud pushes another officer
back to the ground, to a cheer
from the crowd.
The scene caught on video was
one of many confrontations be-
tween protesters and security
forces in recent days, as authori-
ties razed the hamlet of Lützer-
ath, in western Germany, clearing
the way to expand a gaping open-
pit coal mine.
Swedish climate activist Greta
Thunberg, one of hundreds of
protesters who have traveled to
the area to demonstrate, was de-
tained by police Tuesday for a
second time, according to Alle
Dörfer Bleiben, a group fighting
the demolition of villages to make
way for coal mining. Photos and
video showed Thunberg being
carried away by police.
But as of Tuesday, there was
little left of Lützerath, and the
activists who had occupied its
buildings had been moved out,
said David Dresen, a resident of
the area and an activist with the
group. “There’s nothing left to
save,” he said.
The village became an emblem
of Germany’s fallback on fossil
fuels as the war in Ukraine sig-
naled an end to cheap natural gas
supplies from Russia. Activists
argue that digging up the coal
under Lützerath shows Germany
is not serious about its climate
commitments and highlights the
hypocrisy of Europe’s largest
BRAZIL
Lula removes troops
guarding residence
Brazilian President Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva has removed
40 troops guarding the
presidential residence after
expressing distrust in the
military for failing to act against
demonstrators that ransacked
government buildings Jan. 8.
His decision was published
Tuesday in the government’s
official gazette.
Last week, Lula told reporters
that security force members
were complicit in letting a mob
of supporters of far-right former
president Jair Bolsonaro storm
government buildings in
Brasília. Investigations into the
rampage have begun to show
apparently intentional lapses in
security that allowed it to occur.
— Reuters
economy, even as it sets ambi-
tious goals for renewables.
In the days since the village
was largely cleared, activists con-
tinued their demonstrations, try-
ing to block roads into the mine
and climbing on its huge digging
equipment to prevent its use.
“The message is: It’s not about
Lützerath; it never was,” Dresen
said. “It’s about the coal. Even if
Lützerath has fallen, we are still
trying to close the mine.”
The Garzweiler II mine, run by
the energy giant RWE, extracts
about 25 million tons of lignite a
year. Tens of thousands of resi-
dents have been displaced to ac-
commodate the digging.
“Germany is really embarrass-
ing itself right now,” Thunberg
told reporters over the weekend.
“I think it is absolutely absurd
that this is happening in the year
2023.”
The demolition proceeded de-
spite Germany’s pledge to wean
itself off coal by 2030, eight years
RUSSIA
Navalny vows to keep
resisting the Kremlin
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei
Navalny used the second
anniversary of his incarceration
Tuesday to reinforce his promise
to keep up his opposition, as his
family and allies started a
campaign to free him.
Navalny, 46, was arrested two
years ago as he returned to
Russia from Germany, where he
had been treated for poisoning
with a deadly nerve agent in
what he and some Western
nations said was a Russian state
assassination attempt. The
Kremlin denied involvement.
“Our miserable, exhausted
Motherland needs to be saved. It
has been pillaged, wounded,
dragged into an aggressive war,
and turned into a prison run by
the most unscrupulous and
EZ RE
The World
RONALD WITTEK/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
FEDERICO GAMBARINI/DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
earlier than planned. In a deal
with the government last year,
RWE was allowed to dig under
Lützerath but agreed not to de-
molish five other villages and to
stop mining early.
D I GE S T
deceitful scoundrels,” Navalny
wrote on Twitter via his lawyers.
“Any opposition to this gang —
even if only symbolic in my
current limited capacity — is
important. I’m not going to
surrender my country to them,
and I believe that the darkness
will eventually fade away.”
— Reuters
AFGHANISTAN
Aid organizations
resume some work
Several aid organizations have
restored some operations in
Afghanistan after they received
assurances from Taliban-run
authorities that women could
work in areas such as health,
despite restrictions last month
barring female nongovernmental
organization workers.
The International Rescue
Committee, Save the Children
Some climate activists had
camped out in the village for
more than two years, occupying
an 18th-century farmhouse and
its outbuildings after the last
farmer left.
and CARE said this week they
were again operating some
programs, mostly in health and
nutrition.
The Taliban administration
last month ordered local and
foreign aid organizations to stop
letting female staff work until
further notice. It said the move,
condemned globally, was
justified because some women
had not adhered to the Taliban’s
interpretation of Islamic dress
code. Many NGOs suspended
operations, saying they needed
female workers to reach women
in the conservative country.
— Reuters
Public lashing used as
punishment, Taliban says: Nine
men were lashed in public in
southern Afghanistan on
Tuesday as punishment for
different crimes under the
country’s new rulers, a Taliban-
appointed official said. The
THE WASHINGTON POST . WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
RONALD WITTEK/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
FEDERICO GAMBARINI/DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOVE LEFT: Police officers
confront activists blocking the
tracks over which the lignite is
transported from the mine to
the coal-fired power plant of
German energy provider RWE.
ABOVE RIGHT: Activists
continue to protest the
expansion of the Garzweiler II
lignite mine, after police razed
the village of Lützerath.
LEFT: Police officers carry
Swedish climate activist Greta
Thunberg away from the edge
of the Garzweiler II mine
during the demonstration.
But after the land legally
passed to RWE and courts con-
firmed that the activists had to go,
police began clearing the area last
week, dragging protesters out of
buildings and dismantling their
lashings were the latest example
of harsh policies imposed by the
Taliban since they seized power
in August 2021. Haji Zaid, a
spokesman for the governor’s
office in southern Kandahar
province, said in a tweet that the
lashings took place at the sports
stadium in Kandahar, the
provincial capital. Each man was
lashed between 35 and 39 times
in front of Taliban officials,
religious clerics, elders and local
people, he said.
— From news services
Palestinian militant killed in
West Bank: Israeli forces shot
and killed a Palestinian militant
in the occupied West Bank on
Tuesday, the latest in a bout of
surging violence between Israelis
and Palestinians. The Palestinian
Health Ministry said the 40-year-
old man, identified as Hamdi
Shaker Abdullah Abu Dayyah,
was shot and killed by Israeli
treehouses.
Additional activists, including
Thunberg, arrived over the week-
end to bolster the resistance ef-
fort.
Activists accused police of us-
ing excessive force to break up
their demonstrations. One video
showed police with batons charg-
ing at protesters.
North Rhine-Westphalia’s in-
terior minister, Herbert Reul, told
a weekend talk show that he
believed police forces had been
“highly professional,” but that ac-
cusations of police use of exces-
sive force would be investigated.
“The core of the conflict in
Lützerath is not between the Min-
ister of the Interior and activists,
but one between society and fossil
destruction,” tweeted Fridays for
Future activist Luisa Neubauer.
“Climate conflicts are not solved
by police operations or the crimi-
nalization of committed citizens.
They are solved by keeping cli-
mate promises quickly and fairly.”
forces in Halhul, north of
Hebron. Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigades claimed the man as a
fighter. The Israeli military said
troops in the area were fired
upon and returned fire.
Dismembered bodies found
under events hall: Authorities
said Tuesday that they had
unearthed 10 dismembered
bodies from under the floor of an
events hall in central Mexico.
The grisly discovery was made in
the town of Tenango del Valle,
just west of Mexico City, after an
investigation into the activities
of nine men believed to belong to
the Jalisco drug cartel,
prosecutors in Mexico state said
over the weekend. The men were
arrested after kidnapping a
woman and starting to cut off
her fingers, prosecutors said.
Excavations revealed dozens of
sacks of dismembered body parts
buried under the concrete floor.
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Milley meets with top Ukrainian general near war zone

First in-person visit
comes as U.S., allies
bolster Kyiv’s arsenal
BY D AN L AMOTHE
southeastern poland — The
Pentagon’s top general met on
Tuesday for the first time in
person with his Ukrainian coun-
terpart, traveling by vehicle from
a base here in Poland to an
undisclosed location near the
countries’ border in what ap-
peared to be a symbolic show of
support as Washington intensi-
fies its military assistance to
Ukraine.
Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and
Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top
officer in Ukraine’s armed forces,
discussed the war with Russia
over the course of a couple of
far resisted sharing with
Ukraine, including Gray Eagle
drones and the long-range Army
Tactical Missile System, or ATAC-
MS, Ryder demurred. “Secretary
Austin’s been very clear that we
continue to maintain an active
and ongoing dialogue with our
Ukrainian partners, with the in-
ternational community, on what
are Ukraine’s most urgent
needs,” he said.
Milley arrived in southeast-
ern Poland about 11 a.m. local
time and began his meeting
with Zaluzhny about two hours
later, Butler said. Some Ameri-
cans traveling with the general,
including two journalists, re-
mained at the military base here
— a way station used to funnel
aid to Ukraine — while Milley
traveled closer to the border. No
photography was allowed dur-
ing the visit, and U.S. military
officials requested that the jour-
nalists withhold exact locations.
The meeting occurred a day
outdoor walls commonly known
as HESCO barriers to join two
batteries of Patriot air defense
systems that were deployed in
southeastern Poland in the
spring.
A U.S. soldier assigned to a
Patriot unit there said Tuesday
that some have been assigned to
the base since March, and that
they aren’t sure when another
unit of soldiers may rotate in and
replace them. That’s not uncom-
mon for Patriot units, but the
lack of predictability has put a
strain on the unit, the soldier
said.
The unit operates continuous-
ly, with its alert status ebbing
and flowing based on events of
the day. He acknowledged an
incident in November in which a
Ukrainian missile landed acci-
dentally in Poland as one such
event.
“We have to respond properly
to the situation,” the soldier said.
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hours, said Col. David Butler, a
U.S. military spokesman. The
meeting was arranged after it
became clear that Zaluzhny
would not be able to attend a
gathering Wednesday of senior
NATO military officials in Brus-
sels. Milley was accompanied by
five other Americans, an inter-
preter and security personnel.
News of the high-level interac-
tion was withheld until it con-
cluded, with officials citing safe-
ty precautions.
“They’ve talked in detail about
the defense that Ukraine is try-
ing to do against Russia’s aggres-
sion,” Butler said of the two
officers. “And it’s important —
when you have two military
professionals looking each other
in the eye and talking about very,
very important topics, there’s a
difference.”
The face-to-face encounter oc-
curred after a year of remote
meetings between the generals,
and as the United States and its
allies expand the arsenal of
weapons they are providing to
Ukraine — including advanced
American fighting vehicles, Eu-
ropean tanks and an array of
other equipment — ahead of an
expected counteroffensive.
Ukrainian military commanders
want to push out entrenched
Russian forces in the east and
south of the country while forti-
fying its defense against contin-
ued missile and drone attacks on
civilian areas.
The scope of training being
provided for Ukrainian forces
also has grown significantly,
with U.S. soldiers in Germany
now preparing a Ukrainian
mechanized battalion to better
combine how those troops use
U.S.-made weapons to maximize
their effects on the battlefield,
and as other U.S. Army personnel
in Oklahoma show their Ukraini-
an counterparts how to use the
sophisticated Patriot air defense
system.
The Kremlin has sharply criti-
cized Western efforts to help
Ukraine, accusing Washington
and its NATO allies of waging a
proxy war against Moscow and
raising concerns that Russia
could at some point grow intoler-
ant of the intervention and tar-
get the United States or another
NATO country. Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin recently
named Milley’s Russian counter-
part, Gen. Valery Gerasimov as
his top commander in Ukraine, a
move observers have said is a
strong indication that Moscow
after a contingent of civilian Alex Horton in Washington Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, observes training at the Grafenwoehr
officials from the Pentagon and contributed to this report. Training Area in Germany on Monday. He met with his Ukrainian counterpart Tuesday in Poland.
State Department met in Kyiv
with Ukrainian President Volod-
ymyr Zelensky and other senior
Ukrainian officials. Austin and
Secretary of State Antony Blink-
en traveled to Ukraine’s capital
previously in a demonstration of
the Biden administration’s sup-
port. Milley has not visited
Ukraine, as the United States
appears to maintain a policy in
which only the small contingent
of American military personnel
assigned to the U.S. Embassy in
“Secretary Austin’s
been very clear that
we continue to
maintain an active
and ongoing
dialogue with our
Ukrainian partners,
with the
international
community, on what
are Ukraine’s most
urgent needs.”
Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a
Pentagon spokesman,
responding to a question about
sending advanced weaponry to
Ukraine
Kyiv spend time in the country.
Butler said the visit did not
pose significant security con-
cerns for Milley and that the
general did not go anywhere
believed to be dangerous. Milley
wanted to provide Zaluzhny with
his impressions of the Ukrainian
unit that just began training
under the supervision of U.S.
soldiers in Germany after visit-
ing them on Monday, and to
discuss Ukrainian needs ahead
of a regularly scheduled meeting
later this week of the Ukraine
Contact Group, the international
partners that have supported the
country militarily throughout
the war.
“Gen. Milley’s job here as a
military guy is to be able to
describe the tactical and opera-
tional conditions of the battle-

has no inclination to end its
invasion as the war nears its
one-year mark with more than
100,000 dead or wounded on
both sides.
Later this week, Milley will
Balance.
field, and what the military
needs are. And the way he does
that is one, by understanding it
himself, but two, by talking to
Gen. Zaluzhny on a regular ba-
sis.”

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London o∞cer convicted of 24 counts of rape is fired
BY A DELA S ULIMAN
london — A serving officer in
London’s police force was fired
Tuesday after being found guilty
of 24 counts of rape, making him
one of the country’s most prolific
sex offenders.
For almost two decades, David
Carrick, 48, used his position as a
law enforcement officer in Lon-
don’s elite Metropolitan Police
force to attract, coerce and sexu-
ally abuse women, the Met said in
a statement.
The case has alarmed the Unit-
ed Kingdom, where memories of
the abduction and murder of Sar-
ah Everard — a young woman
walking home in South London —
by police officer Wayne Couzens
during the pandemic are still
fresh.
“We have failed. I’m sorry. He
should not have been a police
officer,” Metropolitan Police Com-
missioner, Mark Rowley said, is-
suing an apology to all of Carrick’s
victims. “This man abused wom-
en in the most disgusting man-
ner, it is sickening.”
Rowley praised the women
who had came forward as “un-
imaginably brave” after Carrick
pleaded guilty to multiple counts
of rape, indecent assault and false
imprisonment in a London court
on Monday.
He will receive his prison sen-
tence Feb. 6, the Met said.
Key suspect in E.U. ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal cuts a deal, will talk
BY E MILY R AUHALA
AND B EATRIZ R ÍOS
brussels — A key suspect in a
corruption case that has rocked
the European Parliament has cut a
deal with Belgian authorities,
agreeing to share details of an
alleged cash-for-influence scheme
— and potentially exposing more
European Union dirt — in return
for a lesser sentence.
Pier Antonio Panzeri, an Italian
politician who was an elected
member of the E.U.’s legislative
body from 2004 until 2019, signed
a memorandum with Belgian offi-
cials Tuesday, admitting his role in
the alleged fraud and promising to
name names, including “the iden-
A photo of Sarah Everard in a tribute to her in 2021 in London. Everard’s murder by a Metropolitan
Police officer had the public shaken even before the string of rapes by another Met officer came to light.
Although he worked as a Met
police officer from 2001, includ-
ing a stint in parliamentary and
diplomatic protection, it was only
in October 2021 that alarm bells
were raised after Carrick was
charged with rape.
At that point, the Met began “a
thorough review of his service,”
which revealed a “pattern of be-
haviour that should have raised
tity of persons he admits to having
bribed.”
Under the deal, Panzeri will re-
ceive a reduced sentence with un-
specified prison time. He will also
have assets confiscated. The state-
ment from Belgian prosecutors
notes that this is only the second
time in Belgian legal history that
the “pentiti law” — a reference to
Italian laws allowing investiga-
tion of the mafia — has been used.
News of Panzeri’s cooperation is
the latest twist in a widening cor-
ruption probe that is already be-
ing called the most significant E.U.
scandal in recent memory.
After multiple police raids in
December, Panzeri and several
others were charged on suspicion
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concerns,” it admitted in its state-
ment.
“He used the fact he was a
police officer to control and co-
erce his victims,” Assistant Com-
missioner Barbara Gray said. “We
should have spotted his pattern of
abusive behaviour and because
we didn’t, we missed opportuni-
ties to remove him from the or-
ganization. We are truly sorry.”
of money laundering, corruption
and taking part in a criminal or-
ganization on behalf of an un-
named “Gulf State,” widely report-
ed to be Qatar. Investigators were
also looking at whether Panzeri
had links to Morocco, according to
Belgian media reports. Both coun-
tries deny involvement.
The other suspects include Eva
Kaili, a Greek member of the Euro-
pean Parliament who was until
last month one of the body’s 14 vice
presidents, and her partner, par-
liamentary assistant Francesco
Giorgi. Kaili’s lawyer said she
maintains her innocence.
Although the details of the al-
leged fraud are still coming to
light, Belgian police have confis-
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Carrick was vetted upon join-
ing the Met in 2001 and again in
2017. On both occasions, his vet-
ting was successful.
Gray called Garrick a “prolific,
serial sex offender” who preyed
on women for many years. “He
has devastated women’s lives. …
He has devastated colleagues,”
she added. “But regrettably he is
not the only Met officer to have
cated more than 1.5 million euros
($1.59 million) in cash found in
raided homes and at least one
suitcase. Security services also
sealed off access to European Par-
liament offices.
On Monday, the parliament be-
gan the process of lifting the im-
munity of two additional lawmak-
ers, which could eventually allow
them to be interviewed as part of
the probe. The same day, an Italian
court ruled that Panzeri’s daugh-
ter could be extradited to Belgium
in connection with the case. His
wife is awaiting the outcome of an
appeal in her own extradition
case.
The scandal — with its mafia-
like details — has shaken the de
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been charged with serious sexual
offences in the recent past.”
Public anger is rising over the
fact that Carrick was only “sus-
pended” from his job in October
2021 and not immediately fired.
His salary was stopped, the police
noted, but he remained an em-
ployee until Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Met po-
lice, Chris Humphreys, told The
Washington Post that criminal
proceedings had to reach a guilty
plea or conviction stage before a
misconduct process could be con-
cluded and employment termi-
nated, which he acknowledged
“seems absurd” to external on-
lookers.
However, he added that the
force would be “reviewing the
details of any allegations of do-
mestic abuse or sexual offences
from the past 10 years,” where a
Met officer or staff was involved.
It estimates that about 1,633
cases will be reviewed, involving
more than 1,000 officers and staff.
Rowley, the Met commissioner,
also promised his force would
“reform at speed” and step up its
national vetting procedures to
root out “problematic officers.”
The Met has more than 43,000
officers and staff and is the U.K.’s
largest police service, afforded 25
percent of the total police budget
for England and Wales and re-
sponsible for safety across much
of the capital.
facto capital of the European
Union, raising questions about
corruption and influence ped-
dling and renewing calls for
tougher ethics rules.
Top E.U. officials have promised
changes. Roberta Metsola, presi-
dent of the European Parliament,
said Monday that she is working
on new ways to “improve account-
ability and checks,” including a
revolving-door policy, more trans-
parency on relationships with
third countries, and training on
whistleblowing and compliance.
“We owe this to our citizens, to
all those who came before, and to
all those who will come after us,”
she said.
But the push is in its early stages
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In recent years it has faced
intense criticism for a string of
failures including the killing of
Everard and the heavy-handed
policing of a subsequent vigil,
accusations of institutional rac-
ism, being slow to investigate the
“Partygate” scandal that toppled
then-Prime Minister Boris John-
son’s government and the resig-
nation of its former chief, Cressi-
da Dick, amid scandal and public
pressure last year.
London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan
has called Carrick’s offenses “ap-
palling.”
“Whilst work to reform the
culture and standards of the Met
is underway — questions must be
answered around why he contin-
ued to work for the Met,” he
tweeted. “It’s vital that all victims
of crime have confidence in our
police.”
A spokesman for Prime Minis-
ter Rishi Sunak urged police forc-
es across the nation to “root out
these officers to restore the pub-
lic’s trust, which has been shat-
tered by high-profile events such
as this.”
However, women’s rights
groups across the country have
said on social media that Car-
rick’s conviction and firing comes
“decades too late” for those he
abused. Others have questioned:
“Who is policing the police? Fe-
male trust and confidence is bro-
ken.”
— and is already facing criticism
for being far too weak.
On Tuesday, some parliamen-
tarians said Panzeri’s case under-
scored the need for real change —
and braced for explosive “Qatar-
gate” allegations to come.
“The fact that the justice system
considers this deal useful con-
firms the seriousness of the accu-
sations and that the European
Parliament can no longer procras-
tinate on ending the culture of
money,” tweeted Marc Botenga, a
Belgian member of the parlia-
ment.
“Everyone involved should be
very nervous,” wrote German
member Damian Boeselager.
“They will be brought to justice!”
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In the Philippines, rising people, according to national dis-

aster officials.
Obstacles remain. Joshua Agar,

dread after fatal flooding an assistant professor at the Uni-

BY S AMMY W ESTFALL
manila — The Philippines has
been welcomed into the new year
by incessant rain, fatal flooding
and landslides in many provinc-
es.
Nearly every day so far in Janu-
ary, heavy rains have caused a
town or city to issue emergency
warnings, order evacuations or
respond with relief efforts. At
least 28 people have died this
month, the National Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management
Council said Monday. More than
211,000 people have been dis-
placed among 1.3 million affected
as the rains have destroyed
homes, infrastructure, crops and
fishing boats.
That follows the 50 killed and
more than 50,000 displaced dur-
ing the holiday season by torren-
tial rains that began Dec. 25 and
continued through New Year’s
Day.
The Philippines, an archipela-
go nation of more than 7,000
islands, has two seasons: the dry
season, from December to May,
and the rainy season, from June
to November. Typhoons strike fre-
quently. The floods this month
have heightened concerns that
climate change is fueling extreme
weather that will make such
events more common.
Although January ordinarily
sees less rainfall, heavy down-
pours this month have hit the
country hard, particularly south-
ern provinces. The mayor of Ta-
cloban City, in the Eastern
Visayas region, told constituents
last week to prepare emergency
kits, store food and “most of all,
don’t forget to pray to the one
above.” Authorities in Zamboan-
ga City in the south are balancing
evacuations from flooded homes,
housing displaced families, and
distributing relief and medical
aid as the forecast for the next
week shows little indication that
the rains will relent.
President Ferdinand Marcos
Jr., overseeing aid distribution
last week in Misamis Occidental,
a southern province put under an
official “state of calamity,” said
the Philippines needs a long-term
solution to perennial floods. In-
clement weather prevented him
from landing in some cities on his
itinerary.
People wade through Jipapad, the Philippines, on Jan. 11 in a photo provided by Mayor Benjamin Ver.
“We are looking at everything
to find a solution,” he said. “We
will continue to dredge rivers …
and we will continue to improve
flood controls.”
“But in the long term,” he con-
tinued, “we need to think about
how we can do it so that this never
happens again. We don’t have this
kind of risk anymore.”
The dead have included chil-
dren. Jaymar Sahim, a 13-year-old
eighth-grade student, fell into a
flooded ditch in Zamboanga City
last week and was swept away by
a strong current. Earlier in Janu-
ary, a 5-year-old boy drowned in
flooded Davao del Norte, and an
8-year-old girl was swept away by
strong waters in Lanao del Norte.
Nonstop rains in Mati City be-
fore New Year’s Day loosened a
landslide that killed two cousins,
ages 15 and 14, and two others.
Climate change is expected to
exacerbate the problem. Warm-
ing makes the world wetter by
increasing humidity and heat in-
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dexes and making precipitation
extremes more frequent. Human-
caused climate change made last
year’s devastating flooding in
West Africa 80 times more proba-
ble, researchers with World
Weather Attribution reported in
November.
Still, the Philippines has signif-
icantly improved its resiliency,
especially since Typhoon Haiyan
in 2013, one of the strongest
tropical cyclones ever recorded,
which killed more than 6,000
versity of the Philippines’ Insti-
tute of Civil Engineering, said
political will and attention in the
Philippines are often misplaced.
“Due to our political culture,
much focus was put on disaster
relief (where personalities seize
opportunities to put themselves
in a good light through philan-
thropy) rather than on disaster
prevention (where comprehen-
sive disaster risk management is
needed, with science steering the
policies),” he wrote in an email.
The term “natural disaster”
can be misleading, he said, be-
cause deaths during naturally oc-
curring hazards can be reduced
with proper response and preven-
tion.
To be more resilient, said Krist-
offer Berse, director for research
and creative work at the Univer-
sity of the Philippines’ Resilience
Institute, cities should improve
drainage systems, build infra-
structure such as levees to protect
coastal areas, and improve risk
assessment and early-warning
systems.
“What we need to prepare for is
the increasing complexity of cas-
cading disasters — events that
happen successively, if not as a
result of or aggravated by a prior
disaster,” Berse said.

Kazakhstan tightens visa rules, setting limits for Russians fleeing war duty
BY F RANCESCA E BEL
Kazakhstan has changed its en-
try rules for foreigners, in a move
that is expected to make entering
and staying in the country much
harder for Russians fleeing mili-
tary conscription and other reper-
cussions of President Vladimir Pu-
tin’s war against Ukraine.
Under the new rules, expected
to come into force later this
month, visitors who do not re-
quire a visa because they come
from countries in the Eurasian
Economic Union, which includes
Russia, will be prohibited from
staying in Kazakhstan for more
than 90 days in a 180-day period.
Kazakhstan became one of the
main destinations for Russians
fleeing after Putin announced a
partial military mobilization in
September, which conscripted
300,000 reinforcements to fight in
Ukraine.
According to Kazakhstan’s In-
terior Ministry, about 100,000
Russians arrived in the country in
the first six days following Putin’s
Sept. 21 mobilization announce-
ment. Many Russians then left Ka-
zakhstan for other destinations,
but the new rules seem intended
to force those who have stayed to
obtain residence permits.
The new restrictions will target
visitors who previously circum-
vented Kazakhstan’s migration
rules through what are called visa
runs — by crossing Kazakhstan’s
borders and returning immedi-
ately, effectively resetting the
clock on the 90-day maximum vi-
sa-free stay.
Foreigners who arrived in Ka-
zakhstan with a visa or who were
issued temporary residence per-
mits will not be affected by the
new rules.
“This measure will affect the
Russians the most,” Dionis Cenu-
sa, a political analyst affiliated
with the Eastern Europe Studies
Center, a Lithuania-based think
tank, wrote on Twitter. “This revi-
sion of the visa-free regime will
make it possible to prevent the
prolonged stay of Russians with-
out a residence permit in Kazakh-
stan.”
Cenusa said he believed the Ka-
zakh government was working to
prevent Russian migrants from
becoming a burden on public re-
sources. “If they are not integrated
into the legal and labor sphere,
they could become a future social
problem,” he wrote.
It was unclear if the Kremlin
had any role in requesting the
changes.
Moscow has faced questions re-
cently about how to handle a his-
toric outflow of its citizens that
began even before the military mo-
bilization, as Western sanctions
over the war started making life
uncomfortable — curtailing flights
to international destinations and
cutting off many financial transac-
tions.
In October, Kazakhstan’s Cen-
tral Bank reported that the volume
of money transfers from Russia to
Kazakhstan had increased 13 times
compared with the same period a
year earlier.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker
of the State Duma, Russia’s lower
house of parliament, recently sug-
gested punishing Russians who
had left the country and criticized
the war, potentially by confiscating
their property. “The scoundrels
who have left live comfortably
thanks to our country,” Volodin
posted on his Telegram channel.
But the Kremlin spokesman,
Dmitry Peskov, urged caution.
“They are all our citizens, all equal-
ly, and all could have different rea-
sons for leaving,” Peskov said, ac-
cording to the Tass news agency.
He added, “This is a very difficult
topic.”
Kazakhstan was traditionally
one of Russia’s closest allies. But
since the invasion of Ukraine, Ka-
zakhstan has signaled its desire for
distance from Moscow and to pur-
sue closer ties with China, Turkey
and the West. In recent months,
Kazakh officials have become
more outspoken on the war in
Ukraine.
While Russia has sought to put
pressure on Europe’s oil and gas
supplies, Astana has made moves
to expand its energy cooperation
with the European Union and the
West. And in several votes about
the war at the United Nations,
Kazakhstan chose to abstain rath-
er than side with Russia.
And in June, during the annual
St. Petersburg International Eco-
nomic Forum, Kazakh President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that
his country did not intend to rec-
ognize the independence of the
Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Re-
publics in eastern Ukraine, break-
away states loyal to Moscow.
More recently, Tokayev has con-
demned Putin’s claimed annexa-
tion of four regions of Ukraine.
As waves of Russians entered
Kazakhstan in the wake of the
September mobilization, Tokayev
not only promised to provide
them humanitarian assistance
but said publicly that those fleeing
had been forced to leave Russia
due to a “hopeless situation.”
But Tuesday’s announcement
of the new entry restrictions ap-
peared to mark a bit of calibration,
with Tokayev potentially adopting
a more cautious approach.

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Dancer, folk singer and outdoor enthusiasts among victims of Nepal crash
BY S ANGAM P RASAI,
A NNABELLE T IMSIT
AND E LLEN F RANCIS
kathmandu, nepal — When
Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed
Sunday in Nepal, it cut short the
lives of dozens of passengers and
crew members aboard — includ-
ing a Nepali folk singer, a British
dancer and an Argentine climber.
Authorities said that there
were no survivors from the crash
near Nepal’s new Pokhara Air-
port, and that rescuers had recov-
ered 71 bodies as of Tuesday —
leaving one still unaccounted for.
The cause of the crash remains
unclear.
On board the flight were four
crew members, 53 Nepali nation-
als and 15 foreigners from coun-
tries as far away as Australia and
France. One victim had just cel-
ebrated his 34th birthday. Here
are some of their stories.
A pilot whose husband died
in another plane crash 16
years earlier
Captain Anju Khatiwada was
the co-pilot of Sunday’s flight. She
had lost her husband — who was
also a pilot — in another Yeti
Airlines plane crash more than
16 years ago. She was 44, Reuters
reported.
Khatiwada trained to fly in the
United States. She wanted to
follow the path of her husband,
who died in June 2006 when the
small passenger plane he was
co-piloting crashed shortly be-
fore landing, an airline spokes-
man said Tuesday.
“Since then, Anju decided to
pursue a career in aviation,” Su-
darshan Bartaula told The Wash-
ington Post.
He said Khatiwada went to
Toulouse, France, in 2021 for
training on the ATR 72 — the
aircraft involved in Sunday’s
flight — and had nearly 6,400
hours of flying experience.
An outdoor enthusiast
who taught near Sydney
Myron Love was a fan of the
outdoors who had been teaching
at Bronte Public School in a
suburb of Sydney. He was 29, the
Australian Broadcasting Corp. re-
ported. His family, and the family
of his partner, Annabelle Bailey,
confirmed that Love was among
those killed. In a statement, they
said Love “has been a rock to both
of our families for many years and
he has always lived his life to the
fullest.”
“He has put so much into his
short life that most of us couldn’t
fit into our lifetime,” they added.
Love was “an extremely keen
cyclist and surfer,” his local mem-
ber of Parliament, Allegra Spend-
er, wrote on Facebook. He was a
member of the Easts Cycling
Club, which canceled a planned
race in his honor, according to the
ABC.
The Old Andreans Association,
an alumni group at St. Andrew’s
Cathedral School in Sydney,
where Love was a student, re-
membered him as someone with
a “kind heart” and “infectious
Rescue teams search for remains of victims Tuesday at the site where a Yeti Airlines plane crashed two
days earlier in Pokhara, Nepal. Authorities said all 72 people aboard the plane were killed.
energy.”
A Nepali folk singer
traveling to a local festival
Nira Chhantyal, who lived in
Kathmandu, had tens of thou-
sands of followers on TikTok,
where she often posted videos of
herself dancing and mouthing
along to the words of popular
local songs.
On Saturday, in one of her last
Facebook posts, Chhantyal post-
ed photos from a community
event in Nepal’s capital and wrote
that she was traveling to
“Pokhara tomorrow.”
Local media reported that she
was headed to Pokhara to per-
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form at an event organized for
Maghi, a festival celebrated by
the Tharu community in Nepal.
In her last Facebook post,
Chhantyal marked the holiday by
sending her well wishes to “all
father mother, brothers and sis-
ters” inside and outside Nepal.
An Argentine mountain
climber who ran a hotel
Jannet Palavecino, who ran a
hotel owned by her family in
Neuquén, Argentina, was also on
the plane while on a trip to Nepal.
On Facebook, she wrote about her
passion for mountain climbing
and cycling.
The only Argentine on the
plane, Palavecino was a 57-year-
old mother, according to Argen-
tine media. Tributes on social
media, including from a local
tourist organization and a soccer
club, described her as a beloved
member of the community. “We
will miss you and always keep you
in our memory,” Omar Gutierrez,
the governor of Neuquén prov-
ince, wrote on Twitter.
A friend who said she had
traveled to Nepal with Palavecino
shared photos of their treks
through the Himalayas. “Utmost
respect and admiration for a
powerful woman who lived and
died fulfilling her dreams,” she
wrote.
A British dancer who had just
celebrated his birthday
Ruan Calum Crighton was a
ballet dancer and physiotherapy
student from England who had
celebrated his 34th birthday one
day before boarding the flight.
His death was confirmed by the
Central School of Dance and Dra-
ma in Brentwood, Essex, where
he studied from the age of 10. The
school’s director, Hazel Smith,
described Crighton in an email as
a “wonderful, caring young man.”
Smith said Crighton initially
joined the school to “enhance his
gymnastic training” but soon
“dedicated himself ” to ballet and
modern theater dance, “achiev-
ing outstanding examination re-
sults.” Even after he left the
school, Smith said, Crighton “re-
mained in contact, supporting
Central, often giving his time to
attend and perform at our annual
Prize Giving.”
At age 16, Crighton joined Lon-
don’s Central School of Ballet,
where he completed his vocation-
al training. He then joined the
Slovak National Ballet and, later,
the Finnish National Ballet in
Helsinki.
After he turned 30, “Ruan de-
cided on a change of career en-
rolling at the European School of
Physiotherapy,” Smith said. She
said he was working in Nepal
during his physiotherapy studies.
Prasai reported from Kathmandu.
Francis and Timsit reported from
London. Leo Sands in London
contributed to this report.

Former commander in Russia’s Wagner Group seeks asylum, Norway says

BY V ICTORIA B ISSET
AND M ARY I LYUSHINA
A former commander in the
Russian mercenary Wagner
Group has requested asylum in
Norway after fleeing Russia, a
move that rights groups say could
aid international investigations
into alleged crimes by Russian sol-
diers in Ukraine.
The Norwegian Directorate of
Immigration told the Associated
Press on Monday that the man,
whom it identified as Andrey
Medvedev, had arrived in Norway.
The directorate declined to com-
ment further, citing security and
privacy reasons.
Medvedev’s Norwegian lawyer
also told the AP that his client is
seeking asylum in the country. The
lawyer did not respond to a Wash-
ington Post request for comment.
Last week, police said an indi-
vidual, whom they identified only
as a foreign national, was arrested
after illegally crossing into Nor-
way from Russia early Friday. The
two countries share a 123-mile-
long border.
The Russian human rights or-
ganization Gulagu Net reported
that Medvedev joined Wagner in
July 2022 and fled the group four
months later after witnessing its
fighters capturing and executing
deserters. He then hid in Russia
for weeks before requesting Gu-
lagu Net’s help to flee the country.
“Medvedev became a witness to
many executions and extrajudi-
cial killings by the security ser-
vices of Yevgeniy Prigozhin com-
mitted against ‘refuseniks’ —
those who refused to fight against
the Ukrainians and who wanted to
leave the ranks of this supposedly
voluntary organization, which de
facto forces the Russians to fight
against Ukraine under the threat
of being shot,” the head of Gulagu
Net, Vladimir Osechkin, wrote in a
Facebook post.
In a video posted by Osechkin
earlier this week, Medvedev said
he was willing to collaborate with
international investigators look-
ing into potential war crimes com-
mitted by Wagner, which has
emerged as a prominent force
fighting to accomplish Russia’s
military goals in Ukraine.
The shadowy Wagner Group
was founded by Prigozhin, a
Kremlin-connected business ex-
ecutive, who until Russia
launched the Ukraine war had de-
nied any connection to the group.
Wagner has been accused of carry-
ing out atrocities in countries in-
cluding Libya, Syria, the Central
African Republic and Mali.
In a comment issued by Prigo-
zhin’s press service, he offered an
elusive response to reports about
Medvedev’s escape, seemingly
confirming that he was member of
Wagner but adding a snarky re-
mark that he was “a Norwegian
citizen” accused of “mistreatment
of prisoners.”
According to U.S. assessments,
Wagner has deployed 50,000
fighters in Ukraine — 40,000 of
them convicts recruited from Rus-
sian prisons. In the early months
of the war, Wagner launched a
public advertising campaign to re-
cruit contract soldiers. It is un-
clear how Medvedev joined.
This is not the first report of a
Wagner member fleeing. Last
year, Yevgeny Nuzhin, a 55-year-
old murder convict released from
prison to fight in Ukraine, gave
interviews after defecting to
Ukrainian forces.
In November, however, an un-
verified video was shared on a
Wagner-linked Telegram account
appearing to show Nuzhin’s kill-
ing with a sledgehammer. A Ukrai-
nian presidential adviser said Nu-
zhin had agreed to return to Rus-
sia voluntarily. According to Med-
vedev’s statements to Gulagu Net,
Nuzhin was a member of his unit.

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Securities fraud trial begins over Musk’s funding tweet
He made the 2018 declaration about taking Tesla private, but the court says it was false and investors say it cost them dearly as share price rose and fell
BY F AIZ S IDDIQUI
san francisco — Elon Musk’s
federal shareholder trial began
Tuesday, as he and Tesla defend
against claims of securities fraud
from investors over Musk’s 2018
declaration he had “Funding se-
cured” to take the electric vehicle
company private.
The trial kicked off with jury
selection in U.S. District Court in
San Francisco and is expected to
take about three weeks.
Shareholders are suing the Tes-
la CEO under federal securities
law over his 2018 tweets, which
they allege were false and mis-
leading statements that caused
them financial harm and losses.
The court has already deemed the
tweets to be “untrue.” The inves-
tors seek to hold Musk and Tesla’s
board members liable for damag-
es.
It’s the latest challenge to
Musk’s vast empire and fortune,
months after he took over an-
other major tech company, Twit-
ter, and installed himself as chief
executive.
Since then, his wealth has
plummeted and Musk was recog-
nized by Guinness World Records
for sustaining the “worst loss of
fortune in history” — shedding
about $200 billion over one year.
He has fallen to second place in a
ranking of the world’s richest
people, according to Forbes.
Musk sent the now-infamous
tweet on Aug. 7, 2018: “Am consid-
ering taking Tesla private at $420.
Funding secured.” He followed it
up with a subsequent post read-
ing, “Investor support is con-
firmed. Only reason why this is
not certain is that it’s contingent
on a shareholder vote” — the
other tweet referenced in court
A novel scholarship program aimed at keeping minority students debt-free
I will always
remember the day
I received the
letter that put me
on the path to
financial security.
Michelle I was a high
Singletary school senior
THE COLOR arriving home and
had just opened
OF MONEY
the front door to
find my
grandmother, Big Mama,
squealing: “You won! You won!”
She had opened the letter from
the Baltimore Sun announcing
that I had received a full
academic scholarship to the
University of Maryland at College
Park.
The money was great.
The scholarship covered four
years of tuition, fees, and room
and board, as well as books and
school supplies. It also included a
paid summer internship for all
four years of college that would
allow me to work with seasoned
journalists who would help
mentor me.
But here’s the kicker: If I
performed well in school and
during my internships, a full-
time reporter position would be
waiting at the newspaper upon
graduation.
PHARMACEUTICALS
Walgreens ends limit
on children’s medicine
Walgreens has ended limits it
had imposed recently for online
purchases of children’s over-the-
counter fever reducing products.
The drugstore chain said
improved supplies allowed it to
lift its restriction of six products.
The company had placed no limit
on in-store purchases.
Last month both Walgreens
and CVS Health restricted
purchases of some over-the-
counter children’s medicines,
citing supply issues. CVS Health
put a two-product limit on all
children’s pain relief products
bought through its pharmacies or
online.
A CVS Health spokeswoman
said Tuesday that limits on some
children’s medicines remain in
place. She did not offer a time
frame for when they might end.
An unusually fast start to the
annual U.S. flu season, plus a
spike in other respiratory
illnesses, created a surge in
demand for fever relievers and
other products people can buy
without a prescription.
Shortages of medicines like
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Economy & Business
Elon Musk in 2020, long after his tweet about taking Tesla private and long before he acquired Twitter.
documents.
Musk has defended himself
over claims his tweets were false,
saying last year that he did have
funding lined up at the time —
from the Saudi Public Investment
Fund, which Musk said had “com-
mitted unequivocally” to taking
Tesla private. At that time, Musk
had already settled with the Secu-
rities and Exchange Commission
over the matter, paid a $20 mil-
lion fine and relinquished his
board chairmanship of Tesla,
which paid a $20 million fine of
My grandmother and siblings
nearly knocked me to the ground
on our front porch — I never
made it into the house — as they
all tried to hug me. There were
tears of gratitude for this life-
altering opportunity.
Starting my career with a well-
paying job gave me the means to
care for my disabled brother. I
became a homeowner by the time
I was 22 — a two-bedroom, one-
bath condominium in West
Baltimore. I was able to help
another brother with the down
payment for his first home. When
life happened, I had the savings
to help other relatives who
needed a hand.
“Adults who have attained at
least a bachelor’s degree have
better economic outcomes, on
average, than adults who have
not completed college,”
according to the Pew Research
Center. “They tend to earn more
and accumulate more wealth.”
To be sure, there were times
when I struggled as a first-
generation college student. My
grandmother didn’t know how to
help me navigate the stress of
campus life or the choices that
could derail my plans. But the
mentors I had at the Baltimore
Sun and Evening Sun did. They
Children’s Tylenol developed,
varying around the country and
sometimes even within
communities.
Experts who track medicine
shortages said in December that
the problem could persist
through the winter cold and flu
season.
But they noted that it should
not last as long as other recent
shortages of baby formula or
prescription drugs.
— Associated Press
FINANCE
Morgan, Goldman
quarterly profits down
Wall Street banks showed deep
declines in their investment
banking businesses in the fourth
quarter, prompting thousands of
job cuts, but executives are
looking for signs that corporate
CEOs are regaining confidence in
doing deals again.
Morgan Stanley and Goldman
Sachs reported a plunge in
fourth-quarter profits Tuesday,
as Wall Street dealmakers
handling mergers, acquisitions
and initial public offerings faced
a sharp drop in their businesses
in 2022.
its own.
The court in the shareholder
suit has instructed jurors to as-
sume Musk’s declarations of
“Funding secured” and “Investor
support is confirmed” are untrue.
The suit, initially brought in
2018, is a class action from Tesla
investors alleging they lost huge
sums of money after Tesla’s stock
price soared and fell following the
“Funding secured” tweet and the
SEC’s subsequent investigation.
The surge in the share price
cost Tesla short sellers hundreds
guided me, encouraged me and
got me through some rough times.
Having a relationship with and
the support of other scholars
helped me succeed as well.
It was the totality of that now-
defunct program — money,
mentorship and mental support
— that made the difference
between me giving up and
graduating. We need more like it.
This is why I love a scholar
initiative launched this week by
Fidelity Investments.
The goal of the Invest in My
Education (ME) program is to
help as many as 50,000 Black,
Latino and other historically
underserved students attend
college or complete a certificate
program with no debt.
Fidelity is committing
$250 million over five years,
money that will be spent on
scholarships but also grants to
community groups whose mission
is to help students who are in
danger of dropping out because of
financial need or other issues. For
instance, a nonprofit that
provides mental health services to
young adults could be eligible for
a grant.
“We feel this is truly an
innovative, holistic approach to
investing in Black and Hispanic
D I G E ST
Rising rates roiled markets last
year, and global investment
banking revenue sank more than
50 percent from a year-earlier
quarter, according to data from
analytics firm Dealogic.
Banks are looking for a peak in
the Federal Reserve’s aggressive
rate hiking for confidence to
return in boardrooms, along with
a reduction in sharp swings in
market prices.
“I am highly confident that
when the Fed pauses [rate hikes],
deal activity and underwriting
activity will go up,” Morgan
Stanley Chief Executive Officer
James P. Gorman said on the
bank’s earnings call.
Morgan Stanley Chief
Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya
said she was anticipating the
pipeline of deals would be more
active when there is a “policy
pivot of peaking inflation,
something that allows the CEOs
that are actually having those
conversations in boardrooms to
have more confidence.”
She said CEOs were also
looking for “price clarity and
valuation certainty.”
The plunge in investment
banking has led to deep job cuts,
with Goldman Sachs letting go of
more than 3,000 employees in its
EZ RE
arguing media coverage and pub-
licity surrounding Musk’s busi-
ness moves had “biased” the jury
pool. (Musk has laid off more
than half of the staff of 7,500 since
taking over Twitter, which is
headquartered in San Francisco.)
Musk attorney Alex Spiro ap-
peared in court Tuesday morning
and raised questions about the
potential fairness of some jurors,
seeking to move some outside of
the larger jury pool for question-
ing to avoid influencing the rest
of the panel. Judge Edward M.
Chen agreed to separate out for
individual questioning those
with strong views.
Some prospective jurors had
been critical of Musk, using adjec-
tives such as “irrational” and “ar-
rogant” to describe him. Those
prospective jurors were ques-
tioned individually to determine
their fitness to serve on the panel.
The jury selection process
highlighted how supercharged
the discussion around Musk has
become since the polarizing tech
figure took over the social media
platform.
Some pointed out how their
ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG NEWS perceptions of Musk had shifted,
citing news reports they’d read,
their knowledge of the Twitter
of millions of dollars “when they layoffs and Musk’s tweets.
were forced thereafter to cover Spiro peppered one prospec-
their positions by purchasing Tes- tive juror with questions after the
la securities at artificially inflated person called “most” of Musk’s
prices,” read the initial 2018 com- tweets ill-informed and “for
plaint. shock value,” according to the
Musk and his attorney did not court testimony.
immediately respond to a request “This case is about a tweet and
for comment. a tweet about what he was think-
In the lead-up to the trial, Musk ing at the time when he made the
— who recently moved from Cali- tweet,” Spiro said. “If a person
fornia to Texas — mounted an comes into that case with a view
unsuccessful effort to have the that a couple of his tweets were
trial moved from San Francisco to ill-informed for shock value and
the Western District of Texas, the case is about that, the concern
students as well as other have not been able to advance at
underrepresented groups,” said that highest achievement level,
Pamela Everhart, head of but we know they have grit.”
regional public affairs and Fidelity will award
community relations for Fidelity. scholarships to as many as 2,500
students over five years. It will
start in three regions: Boston,
Raleigh-Durham and Dallas-Fort
“If more American Worth. Eventually, the company
hopes to expand to other states
companies do what where it has a footprint. Each of
the three regions will start with
Fidelity is doing, we 100 students in the fall. More
students will be added in
may not eliminate all additional regions in the
forthcoming years of the
the debt, but we initiative, the company said.
Students who are Pell Grant
certainly will reduce it.” eligible — meaning they show
Michael Lomax, United Negro “exceptional financial need” —
College Fund president and CEO can use the scholarship to attend
a two- or four-year college, or a
certificate program.
Here’s yet another great aspect “We want to be as inclusive as
of the program. It will target possible,” Everhart said.
what Everhart calls the “mighty The initiative will also include
middle,” B students who are often mentorship by Fidelity staff
overlooked for scholarships. members, internship and
“We know that those students apprenticeship guidance, and
who are at the very top of their financial education programs.
class, those A students, those 4.0 Fidelity is partnering with the
students, have better access to United Negro College Fund,
scholarships,” Everhart said. “But which will review the applicant
there are students who have pool and select finalists. Students
unforeseen circumstances in can apply at uncf.org/
their background where they FidelityScholars beginning in
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People ride on boats along a waterway inside the Marina Bay Sands
shopping mall in Singapore on Tuesday. Singapore’s Tourism Board
said Tuesday that it expects the number of international tourists this
year to double from 2022, reaching 12 million to 14 million, and for
tourism to get back to pre-pandemic levels by next year. One factor in
the recovery is China’s gradual reopening, the board said.
biggest round of job cuts since the ALSO IN BUSINESS
2008 financial crisis. The U.S. Department of
Morgan Stanley has cut around Transportation said Tuesday that
1,600. it had fined Virgin Atlantic
In total, global banks are in the $1.05 million for flying in
process of cutting more than restricted airspace over Iraq on
6,000 jobs. numerous occasions. The
— Reuters
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would be . . . that you could sway a
little bit — implicitly.”
Among the pool of about 50
prospective jurors, fewer than 10
were subject to the individual
questioning.
“His persona has changed in
the last few years,” said one pro-
spective juror who had expressed
a negative view of Musk in ques-
tioning.
Those prospective jurors cited
the layoffs at Twitter, their objec-
tions to Musk allowing some who
had promoted hate speech back
on the site, and Musk’s push to
keep Tesla’s manufacturing plant
open amid coronavirus restric-
tions in California, for example.
During jury selection, one pro-
spective juror who works for a
software firm that does business
with EV manufacturers raised
concerns about how the outcome
of the case could negatively affect
the company he works for.
Spiro pushed for certain topics
to be omitted from the plaintiff ’s
opening statements: Musk’s dis-
putes with the SEC and “recent
events at Twitter,” indicating that
he does not want the trial to be
influenced by Musk’s current
public image. The plaintiffs
agreed broadly to Spiro’s terms.
Musk faced other fallout from
the 2018 tweets, as concerns
mounted over his fitness to lead
Tesla and his penchant for con-
troversy proved a drag on the
company’s share price.
But a year later, many of Musk’s
legal and financial issues were
resolving in quick succession. Te-
sla stock rallied in late 2019 and
skyrocketed in 2020, and Musk
emerged from the economic rav-
ages of the pandemic as the
world’s richest person leading the
most valuable car company.
March. Scholarship winners will
be selected for each pilot region
by the end of June.
The $190 million earmarked
for the scholarships is UNCF’s
largest corporate gift in its 78-
year history, according to Michael
Lomax, the group’s president and
chief executive.
There is a lot of money out
there from both the private and
public sectors, but the awards
often don’t cover enough college
costs to get a student through to
graduation without taking on
debt — or crushing their parents
with education loans.
So much focus right now is on
President Biden’s student loan
forgiveness program that we
forget the path to prosperity for
many students — especially those
of color and from low-income
families — is the ability to finish
college without heavy borrowing.
“If more American companies
do what Fidelity is doing, we may
not eliminate all the debt, but we
certainly will reduce it,” Lomax
said.
Let’s stop focusing on just
fixing the federal debt repayment
programs and encourage more
private scholarship programs like
the one I received, and the one
Fidelity has created.
department has jurisdiction since
the flights carried Delta Air Lines’
code. The Federal Aviation
Administration had issued a
notice prohibiting U.S. carriers
from flying over Iraqi airspace
without prior approval. The
investigation found that Virgin
Atlantic flew “a significant
number” of flights that breached
the ban between September 2020
and September 2021, the
Department of Transportation
said, adding that the airline was
ordered to prevent future
violations. Virgin Atlantic said
Tuesday that “as soon as we were
made aware of this compliance
issue by the DOT, our code share
flight routings were immediately
corrected.”
Spending by U.S. consumers is
growing at a slower pace and the
share of households making
major purchases in recent
months declined, according to a
report from the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. Monthly
household spending grew by
7.7 percent in December from a
year earlier, down from a high of
9 percent reached in August,
according to survey results the
New York Fed released Tuesday.
— From news services
A16
State lawmakers organize coordinated wealth-tax bills
BY J ULIE Z AUZMER W EIL
Left-leaning proponents of
taxing the assets held by Ameri-
ca’s billionaires have a new tar-
get: In lieu of a federal wealth
tax, state lawmakers want to tax
billionaires where they live, in
states including California,
Washington and New York.
A group of legislators in state-
houses across the country has
coordinated to introduce bills
simultaneously in seven states
later this week, with the same
goal of raising taxes on the rich.
“The point here is to make
sure we do at the state level what
is not being done at the federal
level,” said Gustavo Rivera (D), a
New York state senator who is
part of the seven-state group.
Some of the state bills resem-
ble the “wealth tax” that Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
pitched during her 2020 presi-
dential candidacy. It’s a form of
taxation never before attempted
in the United States, in which
very wealthy people would have
to pay taxes annually on assets
that they own, rather than just
their income that year. Other
bills focus on raising money from
more conventional forms of taxa-
tion, including capital gains tax-
es and estate taxes.
The state legislators say they
would like to try such ideas as a
test case for future national pol-
icy while acting collectively to
minimize the threat of people
moving to a nearby lower-tax
state.
“States are the labs of innova-
tion,” said Noel Frame (D), a state
senator in Washington. “But tax-
es are different. This is why we
are all here together.”
No longer will states “get pit-
ted against each other,” she add-
ed.
Sponsors told The Washington
Post that they will introduce
their bills Thursday in California,
Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois,
Maryland, New York and Wash-
ington, and shared the text of
their draft bills.
Recent history suggests that
more conventional taxes, like a
Connecticut proposal to create
new tax brackets for the rich,
may stand a better chance of
passage than untested wealth
taxes. In Washington’s last legis-
lative session, for example, a
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wealth tax bill sponsored by 12 of
the state’s 49 senators failed to
advance, while an increase in the
state’s capital gains tax did pass,
but has run into a court chal-
lenge. A California wealth tax
similar to the one that Alex Lee
(D) plans to reintroduce this
week was sponsored by just five
of the 80 state Assembly mem-
bers last year.
Skeptics of wealth taxes, for
their part, say the idea might be
even worse on a state level than a
national level, since the rich can
easily move to another state.
“High-net-worth individuals
are fairly mobile, and it is much
easier to change residency to
another state than it is to leave
the country,” said Jared Walczak,
who works on state tax policy at
the right-leaning Tax Founda-
tion.
Walczak points out that Cali-
fornia’s wealth-tax proposal —
which would stay in effect for
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some years after a resident
moves out of state — would
almost certainly be challenged in
court. And more generally, any
wealth tax that generates rev-
enue from a small pool of the
state’s richest people can easily
unravel if just one or a few very
rich people decide to move, he
argues.
In addition, he says, assessing
the value of a person’s wealth
would be challenging for state
bureaucrats and sometimes lead
to unfair results, as in the case of
Silicon Valley founders, whose
companies may have huge valua-
tions on paper that are hard to
assess or tax in a straightforward
way.
“Just because a company
might sell for hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars in the future
doesn’t mean that its current
owners have any significant
wealth,” Walczak said. The on-pa-
per net worth of billionaires
fluctuates drastically as compa-
nies’ stock prices or valuations
rise and fall, making it hard to
figure out how much they should
pay if taxed on that wealth, he
added.
But Frame, the Washington
lawmaker, argues that billion-
aires should still be taxed on such
holdings even if they don’t actu-
ally have the money in their bank
accounts. After all, property tax-
es go up when the homes are
assessed for a higher value, even
if residents don’t actually see
that money without selling the
house, she notes.
Emmanuel Saez, a University
of California at Berkeley econo-
mist who helped design Warren’s
wealth tax proposal, said state
lawmakers started contacting
him to ask how they could im-
pose a similar tax in their states
during the 2020 presidential
campaign. He helped draft the
variations on a wealth tax that
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in California, New York and
Washington.
He has no objection to a tax
that might compel rich people to
sell stocks or other assets, he
said. In the case of the California
proposal, which would impose a
1.5 percent tax above $1 billion in
assets, “you would sell 1.5 per-
cent of your stock and you pay
the tax,” he said. “If it’s an annual
wealth tax, it’s taking a fraction
of your wealth every year. Almost
by definition, you’re going to
have less wealth after you pay the
tax.”
A fresh look at capital gains
In four states — the three that
drafted bills with Saez’s involve-
ment, along with Illinois — law-
makers say they will float ver-
sions of a tax on wealthy people’s
holdings, or so-called “mark-to-
market” taxes on their unreal-
ized capital gains. But other
. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
states will pitch more conven-
tional tax proposals.
Connecticut lawmakers, for
example, will consider raising
income taxes on high earners, as
the District of Columbia and
New York have done in recent
years.
Connecticut, Hawaii, Mary-
land and New York lawmakers,
meanwhile, are proposing a
change based on some Demo-
crats’ frustration with national
tax policy. The federal govern-
ment taxes capital gains — the
income that a person makes from
selling a stock or similar asset —
at a separate rate from other
income. The highest earners pay
a 20 percent tax on capital gains
while paying a 37 percent tax on
wages — a disparity that some
Democrats want to close.
If federal rates on capital gains
are lower, state rates on capital
gains should be higher, these
lawmakers argue.
A draft of Rivera’s New York
bill, shared with The Washington
Post, indicates that 19 of the
state’s 63 incoming senators have
signed onto a proposal that
would tack on an extra 7.5 per-
cent tax on capital gains for New
York married couples with in-
come above $550,000, and 15
percent for couples with income
above $1.1 million.
In Maryland, Del. Julie Palak-
ovich Carr (D-Montgomery) will
propose an extra 1 percent tax on
top of the state income tax rate
on certain capital gains. “On a
gut level, people realize that
working for your money is not
the same as passively getting
income,” she said.
And in Hawaii, Maryland and
New York, bills will propose a
measure that would affect more
significantly a middle tier of rich
people, not just the ultrarich:
lowering the exemption cutoff
for the estate tax. In Maryland’s
case, families would owe taxes on
inheritances over $1 million
rather than $5 million, as is the
case today.
Del. Jheanelle K. Wilkins (D-
Montgomery), who has proposed
such a bill unsuccessfully before,
said she hopes the idea will gain
more favor since the pandemic
exposed inequality between the
rich and poor. “That’s quite a bit
of funds that we’re leaving on the
table,” she said.
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CATHERINE RAMPELL
Republicans
care about
deficits —
sometimes
B
reaking scientific news: Research-
ers have identified a previously
unknown species in D.C. Like cica-
das, this species stays under-
ground for years at a time, typically in four-
or eight-year intervals. Its members hide
away until there is an auspicious change in
the ecosystem. Then, they bust out and
wreak havoc.
This species: Republicans who care
about deficits.
From 2017 through early 2021, members
of the species lay dormant. Coincidentally,
though, a nearly identical-looking sister
species, Republicans who love debt, ruled
Capitol Hill in their stead. With unified
control of the House, Senate and White
House, these debt-loving Republicans glee-
fully spilled red ink across the nation’s
capital and beyond.
The GOP’s budgetary bloodletting began
with a 2017 tax cut that cost $1.8 trillion.
Their fiscal rampage then continued over
the next few years, mostly on the other side
of the ledger. In fact, between 2017 and
early 2020, President Donald Trump added
roughly as much to deficits through new
spending as through tax cuts, appending
his signature to more than $2 trillion in
unfunded spending program expansions,
according to the Committee for a Responsi-
ble Federal Budget.
In total, over his first three years in office
(and including a few more minor tax cuts),
Trump added roughly $4.7 trillion to the
federal debt above and beyond what the
country had already been expected to
borrow. To be clear: This $4.7 trillion figure
refers only to debt signed into law before
the pandemic. If you include subsequent
pandemic-related stimulus bills, the
amount of new debt that Trump sealed
with this signature would be several tril-
lion dollars higher.
During all that time, there was rarely a
peep from the right side of the aisle about
deficit concerns. The debt limit — the
statutory ceiling on how much the federal
government can borrow to pay off its
existing bills — was raised several times
with little fuss, and no conditions. No one
tried to hold it hostage.
Then, the ecosystem changed. Specifi-
cally: A Democrat reentered the White
House. Our newly identified varietal of
Republicans resurfaced and seized control.
Today, the GOP is once again dominated
by those creatures who say they care about
debt, the same species (which we can now
ID with hindsight!) that apparently
ran things when Barack Obama was presi-
dent. And once again, the full faith and
credit of the United States is being held
hostage, ostensibly in the name of fiscal
responsibility.
Republicans — including House Speaker
Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) — are now refusing
to make good on past spending obligations,
including ones their own party voted for,
unless Democrats agree to unspecified cuts
to entitlements and other programs.
Democrats are unlikely to negotiate on
these terms, which seems reasonable:
After all, if Republicans carry out their
threats and force a U.S. debt default, Amer-
icans can expect not just disruptions to
critical functions such as military salaries
and bondholder payments. A global
financial panic might ensue as well, be-
cause U.S. debt would be revealed to be
much riskier than markets have long
assumed.
Also, U.S. borrowing costs would likely
increase if we’re revealed to be unreliable
debtors; this would, over time, worsen the
country’s debt burden.
I’ve often wondered why interviewers so
rarely ask GOP lawmakers to reconcile
their apparently newfound concern over
deficits with the party’s many decisions to
massively increase deficits. Perhaps media
interlocutors fail to ask not because they’re
lazy or ill-prepared but because they were
able to differentiate the two distinct spe-
cies of Republicans earlier than the rest of
us were.
Don’t get me wrong. The country has
serious long-term fiscal challenges. Some
of those challenges are indeed linked to the
design of entitlement programs. Ideally,
lawmakers from both parties would sit
down and hash out some tough choices to
ensure that Social Security and Medicare
remain structurally sound, in light of rising
health-care costs and the aging of the
U.S. population.
And yet, Republicans profess interest in
this endeavor only when presidents have a
“D” next to their name. One question for
further scientific inquiry is: Why? That is,
why don’t deficit-minded Republicans ever
emerge when a fellow Republican occupies
the White House?
Perhaps they know their belt-tightening
proposals are unpopular, and so they’d
rather not have a GOP-affiliated president
preside over their passage.
Or maybe they’re not genuinely fiscally
conservative at all and are just looking for
excuses to damage short-term economic
conditions. Whatever the intentions, that
was certainly a consequence of debt-
ceiling brinkmanship in the Obama era, as
well as the resulting austerity “compro-
mise” that dragged on the recovery post-
Great Recession.
It’s also a likely consequence this year, if
these resurfacing swamp creatures flirt
with default again.
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Ukrainian armored forces near the eastern city of Lysychansk, Ukraine, last June. The United States and other NATO countries are debating whether
to provide heavy tanks to be used in the effort to take back Ukrainian territory seized by Russia since its invasion last February.
The time for incrementalism in Ukraine
is over. Send in the tanks.
BY M ICHAEL O ’ H ANLON
T
he United States and its
NATO allies are engaged in
an intense debate over secu-
rity assistance to Ukraine.
The issue at hand is whether they
should provide Kyiv with modern,
Western-made heavy tanks —
weapons that would greatly boost the
Ukrainians’ battlefield power, espe-
cially for maneuver warfare of the
type needed to retake much or most
of the roughly 17 percent of Ukrainian
territory that Russia still holds.
(Britain has announced that it plans
to send an unspecified number of
its Challenger 2 main battle tanks.)
But the larger debate remains
unresolved.
If this kind of debate sounds famil-
iar, that’s because it is. We have
already shipped to Ukraine weapons
systems — including antiaircraft mis-
siles, HIMARS rocket artillery and
Patriot air defense batteries — that
would have been unthinkable a year
or even just months ago. Yet no one
seems entirely happy with the result.
Some worry that the Biden adminis-
tration has gone too fast, risking
Russian escalation as a response to
U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine.
Still others indict President Biden for
excessive caution. Even Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his
speech of gratitude and solidarity to
Congress just before Christmas,
couldn’t resist gently chastising
Washington with his “honestly, not
really” line about whether Western
aid to date was adequate.
In fact, there has been a method to
the West’s apparent madness in stick-
ing with the slow-but-steady ap-
proach to arming Ukraine. It’s not
perfect, but it has been pretty good,
and in broad terms it should continue
to inform our assistance to Kyiv.
LEANA S. WEN
We need to do more to assist the immunocompromised
L
ast month, I received a message
from Leslie in Michigan. Her hus-
band is immunocompromised
because he has Stage 4 chronic
kidney disease. His nephrologist told
him that a bout of covid could push him
into permanent kidney failure, which
would necessitate a lifetime of dialysis
unless he could receive an organ
transplant.
Because of his severe renal impair-
ment, he would not able to take Paxlovid
to treat a covid infection. The Food and
Drug Administration has also revoked
its authorization for the one remaining
monoclonal antibody to treat covid and
warned this month that Evusheld, the
preventive therapy for those who don’t
mount an adequate immune response to
vaccination, might be ineffective against
some subvariants, including the current-
ly dominant XBB.1.5 strain.
“Needless to say, we are extraordinari-
ly careful,” Leslie told me in an email.
Her husband doesn’t go into any indoor
public places, except for medical ap-
pointments. Though she isn’t at in-
creased risk herself, she takes precau-
tions to avoid infecting him. When she
goes anywhere indoors, she wears an
N95 mask, keeps her distance and leaves
as quickly as possible.
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But there’s an important caveat to
be made. What one might call the
“the Goldilocks policy” will continue
to work only if we recognize its risks
— most importantly, that it is funda-
mentally reactive, thus hindering the
development of a strategy to end the
war. (And by the way, I’m in favor of
sending hundreds of Western tanks
as soon as possible — for reasons I
will explain below.)
Going step by step has
helped Ukraine patch up
vulnerabilities, to be sure,
but it hasn’t furthered the
goal of formulating a
strategy to end the war.
First, though, a defense of “slow
but steady.” The need to avoid Rus-
sian retaliation or escalation is often
cited as the main reason for a step-by-
step approach. That is an entirely
valid concern. The United States and
allies have directly assisted Ukraine
in the killing or wounding of more
than 100,000 Russian soldiers. West-
ern weapons have provided Kyiv with
the necessary lethal capabilities, and
U.S. intelligence systems have been
part of the kill chain. This is a form of
military support that far exceeds
what the United States did to help
Afghan mujahideen fight the Soviets
in the 1980s — or any of its other
partners in Cold War-era proxy con-
flicts against the U.S.S.R.
So it made sense to wait and see
whether Russia would shoot at NATO
logistics infrastructure, supply con-
“I realize that most Americans have
moved on and are tired of the pandemic
— we are too — but I am totally stunned
at how selfish and unkind people can be,”
Leslie wrote.
She described a recent encounter in a
crowded airport bathroom. A woman
came in to charge her phone, and Leslie
asked her if she could please use the
outlet on the other side of the bathroom.
“Rather than social distance tempo-
rarily to help protect me, she lashed out,
telling me to ‘stay home’ and ‘don’t travel’
if I’m at risk,” Leslie wrote. “To make
matters worse, she told people coming
into the bathroom, ‘Can you believe this
woman over there asked me to move
because she’s at risk?’ ”
Most people aren’t this callous. But
Leslie’s point remains: For millions of
Americans who are immunocompro-
mised or who live with someone who is,
it extremely difficult to live in a country
where most people no longer see covid as
a threat. The same is true for elderly
Americans who are more vulnerable to
severe outcomes and those who simply
wish to avoid the potential consequences
of infection, including long covid.
Public health policy is complicated
because it requires balancing the needs
of various groups. Nearly every policy
voys, satellites or even NATO military
bases in Eastern Europe. So far, cau-
tion has paid off. Ukraine has sur-
vived as a country and taken back a
respectable amount of the land it lost
in the war’s early months; the war has
not expanded. Moreover, when Putin
issued his veiled and not-so-veiled
nuclear threats in September and
after, they had to be taken seriously. It
was better to let him cool down
before considering the next escala-
tion of Western military support.
Second, experience has shown that
the West was right to take time to
assess Ukraine’s most immediate and
acute needs as a matter of priority at
each stage of the fight. Javelin and
Stinger missiles were crucial to sty-
mying Russia’s initial attacks on Kyiv
in late February and March 2022. In
the next phase of the fighting in the
spring and summer, Kyiv needed an
ability to punch back against Russia’s
bombardments of regions in
Ukraine’s east and south. Then, in the
late summer and fall, more accurate
and longer-range artillery — includ-
ing HIMARS — gave Ukraine a
chance to take back some territory by
targeting Russian infrastructure,
command posts, troop concentra-
tions, depots and key supply routes.
Improved defenses against drones
and missiles became crucial when
Russia stepped up aerial attacks from
September onward.
Third, the West’s “cautiously ag-
gressive” approach also acknowledg-
es another reality: that modern weap-
ons systems are complex to use.
Learning how to use Patriot missiles
takes months. (The same point ap-
plies to the United States’ Abrams
main battle tanks, by the way — to say
nothing of maintaining them or
properly integrating them into a
combined-arms operation.) Ukraini-
an soldiers have demonstrated im-
will be perceived as too restrictive to
some and too permissive to others. Ask-
ing everyone to forgo all indoor social-
ization is not reasonable, nor are perpet-
ual mask requirements in all settings.
But the challenges that Leslie’s family
and many millions of others face must be
acknowledged. And there are ways to
address them so people are not relegated
to a life of fear and isolation.
For example, I agree with Leslie’s
proposals, as she wrote to me:
“Masks should be required in medical
or dental situations until and unless
covid becomes much less of a threat to
those who are at risk. Many at-risk
people already skip necessary medical
and dental appointments due to fear of
contracting covid, and optional masking
in these venues only makes matters
worse.”
“There should be an option for masked
train cars and subway cars, and possibly
some masked airline flights. . . . Public
spaces should be encouraged to upgrade
ventilation.”
“It is of the utmost importance that
there be more funding for research on
new treatments and monoclonal anti-
bodies to treat immune-compromised
people. Vulnerable people are dying un-
necessarily because there are no good
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pressive learning abilities as they
adapted to Western weaponry over
the past year. Even so, we’ve been
right to take into account the long
learning curves needed to master
these systems.
Yet the debate over tanks has also
revealed the biggest weakness of the
incrementalist approach — namely,
that it is always reacting to events on
the battlefield rather than trying to
shape them. Going step by step has
helped Ukraine patch up vulnerabili-
ties, to be sure, but it hasn’t furthered
the goal of formulating a strategy to
end the war or defining the capacity
that will be ultimately needed to do
so. Tactically, we have been very good,
but strategically our planning is
somewhat lacking.
As for the tanks, I think it’s time we
provide them. That’s not because do-
ing so will necessarily help Ukraine
win the war decisively. Rather, Kyiv
deserves a fair chance to win back as
much territory as possible. Until it
has that chance, neither Russia nor
Ukraine is likely to negotiate with the
kind of sober realism needed to end
this war on reasonable and sustain-
able terms. Sending tanks will also
show Moscow that American resolve
remains firm even with war-skeptical
Republicans in charge in the House
of Representatives — another factor
crucial to productive talks.
If this conflict is to have any chance
of ending in 2023, as I hope, there is
little time to waste in providing
Ukraine with a true combined-arms-
maneuver warfare capability and
then seeing what it can do with it.
Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow and
director of research for the foreign policy
program at the Brookings Institution and
author of “Military History for the Modern
Strategist: America’s Major Wars Since
1861,” due out this month.
treatments for them.”
“Finally, it is critical that there be a
public service campaign to inform the
public about at-risk fellow citizens. Most
people are not aware that we are out
there — most at-risk people do not look
any different from other people. Many
not-at-risk citizens would be willing to
take some steps to help protect vulner-
able people if they only knew what was at
stake.”
I am grateful to Leslie for sharing her
story and policy prescriptions. These are
reasonable policies that can safeguard
the vulnerable while being minimally
intrusive to everyone else. I hope govern-
ments and private entities, including
medical and dentist offices, grocery
stores and the travel industry, consider
them.
And others should keep in mind that
even if they no longer think of covid as a
daily concern, there are those who still
do. These individuals deserve our com-
passion, empathy and understanding —
and our commitment to innovative solu-
tions that can help them, too.
This column is excerpted from Leana
S. Wen’s Post Opinions newsletter,
The Checkup. To sign up, go to
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president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Don’t name streets for people called Eastern) states would see Hamil-
ton’s plan for finances adopted — a classic

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Regarding the Jan. 12 Metro article example of logrolling. This embodies two
“Alexandria moves to speed up the re- truths: Sometimes narrow disputes can
naming of its Confederate streets”: be resolved by broadening the field, ensur-
I’m sure Alexandria’s city government ing each party gets what it most wants;

marked for classification

has its heart in the right place in its and privacy is often needed to make a deal,
efforts to expedite the changing of the as Lin-Manuel Miranda’s music points out
names of 41 of that town’s streets from in “The Room Where It Happens.” On a
those of former Confederate leaders to lesser note, ever since the New Deal, the
those of people and places “worthy of farm bills have been compromises, first
honor.” Certainly the Alexandria officials between supporters of different commod-
The U.S. government’s system for managing secrets desperately needs repair. who deliberately gave those thorough- ities and, since the 1960s, between sup-

I
fares such names in the 1950s (about porters of food stamp and nutrition pro-
T WILL be up to the two special counsels to investigate harder for agencies to function, draining budgets and 100 years after the Civil War) as a pointed grams and supports for farmers. We’re
and weigh the handling of secret documents by eroding public confidence. Agencies put their best people affront to the then-emerging civil rights still able to make sausage, sometimes.
President Biden and former president Donald Trump. to work on the most urgent problems, and declassification movement should never have labeled William D. Harshaw, Reston
But the current questions should not obscure an is a low priority. Now comes a “tsunami,” as the Public them that way in the first place. It’s
enormous problem that has been festering for decades and Interest Declassification Board warned two years ago: an disgraceful that the city government Karen Tumulty was right on point in
threatens national security, democracy and accountabili- explosion of digital information. Yet management of allowed such “Lost Cause” symbolism to her Jan. 12 op-ed. She even noted
ty: The classification system for managing secrets is classified materials “largely follows established analog enter the city’s geographic grid in the Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) calling for the
overwhelmed and desperately needs repair. and paper-based models.” The board suggested in a blog hopes of preserving a repugnant political restoration of regular order. On Jan. 6,
Too much national security information is classified, post that the Freedom of Information Act backlog for status quo. viewers (a record number of whom down-
and too little declassified. For years, officials have stamped records at the George W. Bush Presidential Library “will As anyone who has visited Old Town loaded the C-SPAN app) watched the
documents “secret” in a lowest-common-denominator take a generation to process. This is not acceptable in our can testify, the founders of Alexandria C-SPAN coverage of the numerous House
system that did not penalize over-classification and made democracy.” wisely gave their streets decidedly neu- speakership ballots. Though I am a long-
declassification difficult and time-consuming. For exam- A good start would be to simplify the classification tral names such as King, Queen, Prince, time Democrat — a founder, with then-
ple, in November, a 2004 interview of President George process into two tiers, “secret” and “top secret,” eliminat- Princess, Duke, Duchess and Royal back Chairman Chuck Manatt, of the Demo-
W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with the ing the lower “confidential” level, while protecting those in 1749 (about 100 years after the English cratic National Committee headquarters
9/11 Commission was released to the public. It should not secrets that need special handling. At the same time, the Civil War). Any resident regardless of building in the early 1980s — I thought the
have taken 18 years. federal board outlined a vision for a modernized classifica- political persuasion (except maybe a bipartisan themes of a return to regular
A House Republican overseeing national security put it tion system that would utilize the tools of big data, Roundhead) could stroll those cobbles order, transparency, oversight and com-
this way: “The United States today attempts to shield an artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud storage without offense. Replacement names for mittee importance seemed to be a subtle
immense and growing body of secrets using an incompre- and retrieval. The idea of automation gives some people those 41 Confederate-named streets undercurrent to the various speeches.
hensibly complex system of classifications and safeguard pause, but increasingly it seems to make good sense; the could follow that same sage pattern and Regular order, wherein bills have to be
requirements. As a result, no one can say with any degree mountain of data is already unmanageable. just be generic ranks or titles such as reported from committee before going to
of certainty how much is classified, how much needs to be A panel of government experts met recently at the admiral, colonel, president, senator, etc. the floor and the annual budget process is
declassified, or whether the nation’s real secrets can be Hudson Institute and recommended using more technol- Frankly, to efface all cartographic me- strictly observed, encourages bipartisan-
adequately protected in a system so bloated, it often does ogy to assist human decisions for classification and morials to racism in Alexandria would ship, expertise, transparency and high-
not distinguish between the critically important and the declassification, noting that “the growing volume of require changing the name of the city quality legislation. Unfortunately, since
economically irrelevant. This much we know: There are classified records already exceeds the ability of humans itself. It is named after the two slavehold- before 2000, regular order has been ig-
too many secrets.” That was Rep. Christopher Shays alone to process them.” ing, tobacco-farming cousins, John and nored by both parties’ leadership with
(R-Conn.) speaking 18 years ago, and the situation is That’s a wake-up call. The whole system needs to be Philip Alexander, who sold the original very partisan tactics prevailing, leading
worse today. fixed, and its dysfunction should not be ignored for 60 acres of land to the municipality more to short-term victories but, unfortunate-
Over-classification is counterproductive, making it another decade. than 100 years before our Civil War. ly, long-term partisan dysfunction. Con-
If you don’t want to have to keep tinuing resolutions have become the leg-
forever changing your maps and sign- islative soupe du jour.
posts to avoid offense, it’s probably best When I arrived in D.C. in the mid-1970s
to go generic. It lasts far longer. to begin my legislative (regulatory re-

A key to Ukraine’s success Dan Wittenberg, Bethesda form) journey, The Post published the
daily congressional hearings schedule for
both the House and Senate when they

With a push from the United States, heavy tanks can play a pivotal role. Low-flow toilets work were in session. This legislative informa-
tion greatly enhanced the regular order

I
Former president Donald Trump’s process. For some reason, The Post discon-
T WOULD be a mistake to take a snapshot of Russia’s complaint about toilets that “don’t get any tinued this practice about the same time
blood-soaked ground campaign in Ukraine — fighting water,” as reported in the Jan. 12 news the regular order tradition itself was en-
along a relatively static front line stretching across article “Idea of ban on gas stoves ignites feebled. It would seem timely for The Post
hundreds of miles — and conclude the war is a stale- culture war controversy,” isn’t new. But it to resume this reporting practice.
mate. Russian President Vladimir Putin, intent on is misguided. Daniel V. Flanagan Jr., Annapolis
Ukraine’s destruction and plainly uninterested in peace The “low-flow toilet standard,” along
talks, is preparing fresh troops for major new assaults, most with other water and energy efficiency
likely in the next few weeks or months. Military experts measures, was enacted in the Energy Policy Beyond the honor system
believe he is also planning another push to capture Kyiv and Act of 1992. Statistics from the Pacific Insti-
decapitate the Ukrainian government — effectively a con- tute, a nonprofit organization that tracks It seems pretty clear that neither the
clusive victory for Moscow and a defeat for the West. The water use, show that domestic water con- National Archives nor the Justice De-
United States and its NATO allies cannot allow that. sumption in the United States dropped partment can rely on an honor basis for
To prevent it, and to position Kyiv not only to blunt the from 153.4 gallons per person per day in documents to be returned, either be-
coming Russian attacks but to push the enemy back to 1990 to 120.6 in 2015 — a 21 percent de- cause of negligent packers or intent
pre-invasion lines, Ukraine needs more and heavier weap- ANATOLII STEPANOV/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES crease, saving vast amounts of water, waste- before an executive member, including
ons. First on the list are top-grade battle tanks — specifical- Ukrainian soldiers in an armored personnel carrier water, energy and money for consumers. the president, vacates office or maybe
ly, German-made Leopard 2s — in sufficient numbers to along a road in the Donetsk region on Tuesday. Jack Riggs, Washington even moves. It seems that a more strin-
turn the war’s tide. For that to happen, Germany’s assent is The writer was a staffer for the House gent procedure needs to be developed
required. And given the training and logistical hurdles Ukraine, whose supply of aging, Soviet-made tanks has Energy Committee when the Energy between the National Archives and the
Ukraine faces before it could deploy such heavy tanks, the dwindled, has pleaded for Western tanks from the war’s Policy Act of 1992 was passed. Justice Department around vacating the
timing is critical. outset. The British move is therefore a milestone; it is also Office of the President and any other
President Biden and key European leaders have so far insufficient. Ukraine’s top military commander, Gen. Valery executive position with access to classi-
been mindful to calibrate military aid to Ukraine so as not to Zaluzhny, said in an interview last month that his forces Compromise is good fied information. Ideally, records and
risk spiraling escalation. The Kremlin has brandished need 300 Western tanks to shift the war’s trajectory in sensitive information should be secured
precisely that threat of escalation, including barely veiled Ukraine’s favor. The British, who have only 220 or so Republicans who adopted a rule (“one from the individual before they vacate, in
hints it is prepared to use nuclear weapons, to crimp Challengers in service, are reported to be sending Ukraine bill, one subject”) and Karen Tumulty, a more time-designated and secure way.
Western arms shipments — which, though considerable, about a dozen. who praised the idea of narrower bills in We seem to rely solely on the courtesy of
have mainly enabled Ukraine to survive. There are other possible sources of heavy Western-made her Jan. 12 op-ed, “What the House GOP staff packers and the National Archives.
However, near-term survival alone is not a sufficient tanks that could be game changers for Ukraine. Although rebels got right,” ignore political reality as Joan B. King, Towson
strategy for Ukraine, and therefore for the West. Mr. Putin, U.S. M1 Abrams tanks are not plausible — too heavy, costly shown by our history and recounted in
content to play a long game in hope of wearing down to operate and too maintenance-dependent — French the musical “Hamilton.” Regardless of the handling or mishan-
U.S. and European public opinion and resolve, regards time Leclercs and Italian Arietes might be. The best and most Remember the deadlocks in 1790 in dling of classified documents by any
as his ally. If he is right — and there is reason to worry he is — numerous option are German-made Leopards. Several Congress between those led by Alexander current or former president, clearly there
Western policies and provisions that maintain the status thousand of them are in service, mainly in Eastern Europe Hamilton on one side and Thomas Jeffer- is no reliable system in place to keep
quo are a poor bet. And make no mistake: Mr. Putin is and elsewhere. Poland is willing to send them to Ukraine, son and James Madison on the other: The track of those documents. The govern-
betting the house — his imperial ambitions, his legacy, his and others might follow suit — but none can be reexported Hamilton group wanted the national cap- ment seems to have no way of knowing
own political survival. without a green light from Berlin. ital to remain in Philadelphia; those from where, at any given moment, sensitive
That realization has now seized Washington and its key So far, Germany is on the fence, its coalition government the South wanted it somewhere on the documents outside the safety of the
allies, which have started to respond accordingly. Western apparently split, and polls indicate the German public is also Potomac River. Neither side would give National Archives might be. If there
officials have rightly begun thinking about how to win the divided on the question. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is reluctant in. At the same time, Hamilton wanted were, we would not be in the current
war, not just how not to lose it. Weapons systems that six but also publicly on record as awaiting Washington’s input. the federal government to take over re- mess. Any local public library does a far
months ago were regarded as crossing a red line are now Delivering Leopard tanks to Ukraine, he said earlier this sponsibility for paying the debts the better job of checking out — and oversee-
being supplied to the Ukrainians, though still not in month, depends “especially [on discussions] with our trans- states had incurred during the Revolu- ing — the materials it lends to patrons.
numbers needed to break the Russian lines. Earlier this atlantic partner, with the United States of America.” tion; the Virginians opposed the idea Donald Manildi, College Park
month, the United States and Germany agreed to send That amounts to a plea for stepped-up U.S. leadership. because it especially helped Massachu-
armored fighting vehicles, including about 50 U.S.-made The question is whether Mr. Biden, who has vowed not to setts and Pennsylvania.
Bradleys, and France said it is sending light tanks. In recent permit a Russian victory and pledged to stick with Kyiv “as Finally, the Compromise of 1790  Letters can be sent to
days, Britain signaled it will provide Kyiv with Challenger long as it takes,” is prepared to demonstrate even more emerged from a closed-door meeting. The letters@washpost.com. Submissions must
2s, the first Western-made battle tanks to be sent to Ukraine resolve as the war in Ukraine approaches what is likely to be South would get the capital moved south be exclusive to The Post and should include
since Russia invaded 11 months ago. its decisive moment. to the Potomac, and the Northern (then the writer’s address and telephone number.

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Twitter might The Ukraine

be replaced,
but not by
Mastodon
B B
y now, every social media net-
work’s primary problem is all the
other social media networks.
Each platform becomes more
valuable with each additional user, be-
cause it means more people to connect
with. But at this point, fledgling plat-
forms have basically two choices to grow
their networks: Persuade users to give up
some other app, or persuade us to give up
sleep.
This is why Elon Musk’s acquisition of
Twitter turned out to be a stroke of luck
for Mastodon, a platform that might be
described as an open-source, decentral-
ized version of Twitter. In November,
people who were disgusted with Musk’s
new moderation policies — or just wor-
ried that Twitter would stop working
after a 75 percent reduction in employee
head count — migrated to Mastodon,
front is likely
to move. But
which way?
ack in 2013, Russian Gen. Valery
Gerasimov succinctly stated the
nightmare problem he now faces
as the newly installed leader of
Russia’s bungled war against Ukraine:
“You cannot generate ideas on command.”
Gerasimov, the chief of staff of the Rus-
sian military, this month was given the
WASHINGTON POST ILLUSTRATION thankless task of directing Russian forces
in Ukraine. Since Gerasimov helped plan
the botched invasion last February, this
AMANDA KATZ might seem like doubling down on failure.
But U.S. analysts believe that Gerasimov
Why ‘FAFO’ was 2022’s has promised his boss, President Vladimir
Putin, that he will employ more aggressive
tactics to regain the initiative.
The Gerasimov appointment comes as
word of the year Ukraine, too, is moving to use new weap-
ons and tactics to break out of what has
become a bloody stalemate. For both
sides, 2023 will see attempts to redraw

driving its user total from 300,000 in
October to 2.5 million.
This was a spectacular growth rate
until it stopped. By early this month,
active users had fallen by more than half
a million, the Guardian reported. Possi-
bly, this was simply a temporary hiccup,
but I doubt it, because the nature of the
attention economy makes it hard to
create a major social media network that
is like an existing network, only a little
bit different.
In general, if you are providing a
service that is like something else on the
market but tweaked in some way, you
run the risk that you have changed
something important, and your new
version will be less popular, or less
profitable, than the one you were trying
to replace.
Mastodon is not looking for a big
payday; it’s overseen by a nonprofit. But
it is (presumably) looking for users. And
while the decentralized, open-source
model has some real advantages — for
instance, it lets communities have more
control over their own space, rather than
offering a one-size-fits-all corporate solu-
tion — it often solves problems that most
users don’t care about, while creating
ones that bother them quite a bit.
Take bitcoin. It elegantly solves a
problem — permissionless payments —
that most people in wealthy countries
don’t care about. It does so at the cost of
speed and some kinds of security; trans-
actions can take more than 10 minutes to
clear, and once made, they can’t be
reversed, even if they were fraudulent.
Or take Linux, an open-source com-
puter operating system that enthusiasts
once hoped would compete with Apple
and Microsoft on the desktop, but which
has largely remained the province of IT
professionals and a few hobbyists. It
turns out users didn’t want maximal
control over their desktop environment,
or even minimal cost; they wanted to pay
a corporation to ensure that they never
had to think about their operating
system.
There are exceptions, including An-
droid, the open-source mobile platform.
But this is not a homespun peer-to-peer
project; it’s overseen by Google, which
has boring capitalist reasons for wanting
to deny Apple’s iPhone a monopoly over
mobile.
Mastodon is not a corporate project,
L
ast week, the American Dialect
Society announced the results
of its vote for 2022’s Word of
the Year. This time, the society
went slang-esoteric — 2020’s “covid”
and 2021’s all-too-necessary “insur-
rection” were succeeded by the suffix
“-ussy,” which I have never heard in
the wild and, uh, shall decline to
explain in a family newspaper.
But with all due respect to the
society’s distinguished crew of lin-
guists, I’d say it was a college writing
center from Sioux Falls, S.D., that
nailed the word of the year with its
choice: FAFO. In case you don’t al-
ready know, FAFO is an acronym for
“eff around and find out.” It’s a cheeky
way to tell people that if they play with
fire, they might get burned — or to
announce they already have been. The
Sioux Falls gang put a positive spin on
FAFO, citing it as representing the
“gumption” of their fellow students
“when encountering a novel chal-
lenge” and noting that the Urban
Dictionary calls the phrase an “excla-
mation of confidence.” It is that — but
it’s also a whole lot more.
2022 was the year that FAFO, on the
rise since 2020, hit the pop culture
zeitgeist. Jesse Sheidlower, a lexicog-
rapher and editor of the book “The
F-Word,” told me he has traced the
phrase as far back as 2007, originating
in African American slang, but that he
only really became aware of it a couple
of years ago. On Google Trends, you
can see FAFO gradually pick up steam
and then soar this past December.
That was the moment that Kanye
West got booted off Twitter for tweet-
ing an unflattering photo of the plat-
form’s memelord-turned-overlord,
Elon Musk. How did Musk explain his
executive decision? In a four-letter
tweet that forced the actual adults
VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA
Russians are living in a frightening reality
pretrial detention center 5,
moscow
following this squabble to look up
what FAFO meant. Sorry, everybody.
In its brevity, FAFO recalls YOLO
(“you only live once”), a similar acro-
nym that burst from obscurity to
ubiquity after a Drake song put it on
the map in 2011. But if YOLO is largely
a sunny, big-hearted term, FAFO has a
harsher effect. It is confident, sure.
But it is also a warning, and an expres-
sion of glee at someone getting their
comeuppance — a 2022 vibe indeed,
both cathartic and queasy-making.
On the bright side: 2022 was a year
when maybe, just maybe, people who
did dumb or awful things (coups, tax
scams, attacking smaller countries,
making overinflated weed-meme
offers for social media sites) would
finally face some consequences. “Can
you do that?” many asked during the
Trump era. Could you just lie, cheat,
swindle, funnel taxpayer dollars to
your businesses, grab people’s genita-
lia with impunity? Well, 2022 suggest-
ed that you couldn’t, or at least not
entirely. “Eff around, find out” was a
bratty, satisfying way to reclaim the
high ground.
Yet it was also a year of scary
warnings that whatever we were do-
ing might constitute effing around, in
someone’s eyes — and that it wasn’t
going to end well. FAFO, funny and
disturbing, was the double-edged
taunt that covered both scenarios: a
weapon for us, a weapon for them. It’s
no coincidence that to counter Drake’s
YOLO song, “The Motto,” I can find at
least three different songs called
FAFO, all involving menacing chorus-
es where young men of various demo-
graphics (a comedian, a “MAGA rap-
per” — yes, indeed — and a Southern-
fried White rap-rock dude) chant the
phrase at their enemies, and at you. I
listened to these songs and thought
exposure of government corruption.
about not writing about FAFO at all.
Still, the angry young guys, and I
suppose even Musk, are onto some-
thing: FAFO is undeniably fun to say.
There’s that alliteration, the seeming
imperative that is actually a taunt
(like “come and get it”), and the built-
in sense of righteous vengeance. Or,
righteous when it’s your cause, less so
when it’s not.
You can see its broad appeal in how
it’s been deployed across the political
spectrum: by far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.) talking about Donald
Trump; as a pro-Democrat 2020
meme, sometimes paired with wild-
eyed Philadelphia Flyers mascot Grit-
ty; as an anti-antifa, pro-violence slo-
gan by Proud Boys. You can even
watch a professorial guy plot the
phrase as two variables on a graph, in
a TikTok that went viral for its absur-
dity. Say what you will about FAFO,
but it definitely has the range.
When I asked Sheidlower why he
thinks FAFO is so popular, he ac-
knowledged that it’s a “punchy
phrase” suited for these extremely
online times. The FAFO shortening,
which he dates to at least 2012, is
“easier to type on a phone,” he wrote in
an email. “It's not obscene so you can
use it in more contexts.”
As 2023 dawns, I see no sign that
the hard-knock, funny, tribal, punitive
spirit of FAFO is going out of style. But
I’m trying to embrace the best quali-
ties of the phrase — namely, that effing
around can be done in the spirit of
creativity, and that finding out can be
not just a pratfall but a revelation. I’m
wishing you that more wholesome
kind of FAFO this year — as a blessing,
not a curse.
Amanda Katz is a senior assignment
editor for Opinions.
ganda is showing signs of losing its effec-
largely static battle lines. A front line of
World War I-style trenches might become
a more fluid and unpredictable bat-
tlespace this year.
Gerasimov dreamed a decade ago of
modernizing the Russian military to con-
duct this sort of modern battle. In a widely
read 2013 article, he said that “the very
‘rules of war’ have changed.” Russia’s tra-
ditional brute force tactics were outmod-
ed. “Frontal engagements of large forma-
tions of forces . . . are gradually becoming
a thing of the past.” Instead, he argued,
Russia needed “speed, quick movements,
the smart use of paratroops and encircling
forces,” along with irregular “hybrid” forc-
es to fight behind the lines.
It didn’t work out the way Gerasimov
and Putin hoped, to put it mildly. Russia
tried its version of a lightning strike to
capture Kyiv. But it hadn’t reckoned on
Ukrainian valor or Russian incompe-
tence. Since the failure of Putin’s plan to
quickly seize the capital, Russian forces
have repeatedly retrenched and retreated.
Putin, who sells himself as a decisive
leader, has instead been reactive, with
decisions forced on him by battlefield
reversals. After Ukrainian forces retook
Kharkiv in a bold September counterof-
fensive, Putin hastily “annexed” four re-
gions where Russia’s hold was precarious.
After Ukrainian special operations forces
bombed the Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea
in October, a desperate Putin launched a
missile assault on Ukraine’s civilian infra-
structure that continues to this day.
The appointment of Gerasimov is Pu-
tin’s latest Hail Mary pass, and U.S. offi-
cials doubt it will succeed. The biggest
problem is the chaotic command struc-
ture under him. Hastily trained conscripts
are being rushed to the front as little more
than cannon fodder. Meanwhile, the Wag-
ner militia, led by catering oligarch Yev-
geniy Prigozhin, has taken a lead role in
the bitter but strategically meaningless
battle for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
It’s a crazy time for the Russian military:
When a Wagner soldier posted a profane
video in December denouncing Gerasi-
mov, Prigozhin dug the knife in deeper by
posting: “The guys asked me to pass along,
that when you’re sitting in a warm office,
it’s hard to hear the problems on the front
line.” Remember, this Wagner front line is
manned partly by ex-convicts who have
been promised that if they survive, they
might get their freedom. What an army.

and it shows, in good ways and bad.
Everything has a volunteer, hey-kids-
lets-put-on-a-show feel — which appeals
to a veteran of the old blogosphere like
me. But it also means a clunky interface,
and the need to figure out which server
to join, and then hunt down the users
you want to follow. Also, Mastodon’s lack
of a central authority raises questions: If
a bunch of server moderators decide to
ban you because of a smear campaign
against you, or mistaken identity, or just
a temporary viral furor that eventually
dies down, how do you get unbanned?
Do you have to go to hundreds or
thousands of moderators and ask them
one by one?
Centralization has drawbacks, but
also considerable benefits, and it’s uncer-
tain that a decentralized network can
provide the features and solve the prob-
lems that most users care the most about
as well as a centralized service with lots
of highly paid engineers. That’s one
version of the core problem for any
Twitter substitute: Can it solve enough of
Twitter’s problems without introducing
new ones that most users find worse?
And would it be able to do all this in
competition with a much larger network
that will be difficult to replicate? It would
need to reconstruct not only the lists of
people one follows, which might be done
manually, but also the large followings
that power-users have amassed. Unless
everyone jumps at once, these will be
lost.
While network effects certainly don’t
make a company immortal ( just ask
Myspace), they do present a hurdle for
any new service. And it’s a bigger hurdle
than ever because, as I said, our time is
already so filled, and it’s hard to add a
new service without letting go of
another.
So I suspect that when Twitter is
eventually displaced, as it undoubtedly
will be, its successor will be not Twitter-
but-different but rather something not
much like the platform at all — a service
that can grow its network not by solving
Twitter’s problems, but by doing what
the platform did originally: fulfilling
wants we didn’t realize we had.
A
mong the most stressful aspects
of Russian prison life is exposure
to government propaganda. Ev-
ery cell I’ve been in has a televi-
sion that is constantly turned on — and,
with brief respites such as soccer matches
during the recent FIFA World Cup, most of
the airtime across all major networks is
taken up by relentless pro-regime and
pro-war messaging not dissimilar to the
“Two Minutes Hate” from George Orwell’s
1984. Except that, in Vladimir Putin’s Rus-
sia, televised hate goes on for hours.
Propaganda is not limited to news bul-
letins and talk shows — it also permeates
documentaries, cultural programs and
even sports coverage. New Year’s Eve,
when millions of Russians tune in to listen
to popular songs and watch favorite mov-
ies, was also filled with propaganda
messages.
The leitmotifs are always the same:
Russia is surrounded by enemies. The
West seeks to humiliate and dismember it.
The Soviet Union was a noble and benevo-
lent state — “the empire of good,” as chief
TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov put it in
a film broadcast on New Year’s Eve — that
was destroyed by a mischievous scheme of
the Reagan administration with help
from domestic traitors. The only reason
Russia still exists is because Putin is there
to protect it. Ukraine is a Western puppet
state run by neo-Nazis through which the
United States and NATO are trying to
attack Russia. And Russian soldiers on the
front lines are heroes defending the
motherland.
And so on — day after day, for hours on
end. This is the distorted reality that mil-
lions of Russians have lived in for years —
and it is frightening.
It is a reality that Putin took a long time
and put in a lot of effort to construct. He
began early: Days after his inauguration
as president of Russia in May 2000, he
sent armed operatives to raid the offices of
Media Most, at that time Russia’s largest
private media holding. Its flagship outlet
was NTV, one of the country’s most popu-
lar television channels, known for hard-
hitting news coverage, sharp political sat-
ire, criticism of the war in Chechnya and
Within a year, NTV was seized by the state.
Before the end of 2003, the Kremlin had
silenced all of Russia’s independent TV
networks, establishing a complete mo-
nopoly on the airways. From then on, it
was a straight road to dismantling what
was left of Russia’s democracy — and,
ultimately, to where we are today.
Russian society met the destruction of
independent media mostly with silence.
There were street rallies in support of
NTV — but nowhere near the scale merit-
ed by the gravity of the situation. Western
leaders, the supposed guardians of demo-
cratic values, were just as indifferent. A
few weeks after the state takeover of NTV,
President George W. Bush greeted Putin
in Slovenia with famous words about
looking into his eyes and getting “a sense
of his soul.” In June 2003, days after Putin
pulled the plug on Russia’s last independ-
ent TV network, he was treated to a pomp-
filled state visit to London, with red-
carpet greetings, lavish receptions and a
horse-carriage ride with Queen Elizabeth
II. Not a word about media freedom was
uttered by his hosts. As a journalist cover-
ing that visit, I could not help but feel
somewhat astonished.
Western reluctance to seriously ad-
dress the malign influence of Kremlin
propaganda was still on display years later
when, after the assassination of Russian
opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in 2015,
former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov
and I urged the U.S. government to impose
targeted sanctions on some of the most
notorious Kremlin propagandists who in-
cited hatred toward Putin’s opponents.
Our calls fell on deaf ears.
It would take Putin’s invasion of
Ukraine and a large-scale war in the mid-
dle of Europe for Western governments to
finally bring sanctions on the Kremlin’s
propaganda machine and its chief opera-
tors. Only in 2022 did Vladimir Solovyov,
one of the faces of Putin’s television propa-
ganda, finally lose access to his two villas
on Lake Como in Italy. Western politicians
and commentators who blame Russian
society for tolerating this regime for such
a long time should not forget about their
own leaders who did exactly the same.
Despite its intensity, Kremlin propa-
tiveness. Surveys show that the audiences
of all three main television networks are
overwhelmingly older; younger Russians
prefer to get their news from online
sources — and find ways to overcome
state-imposed firewalls to do it. Last year,
Russia shot up to second place worldwide
in the downloads of VPN services that give
access to websites blocked by the govern-
ment; the messaging app Telegram now
has a larger audience in Russia than state
television. A recently leaked secret poll
commissioned by the Kremlin showed
that Russians strongly favor a peaceful
settlement with Ukraine over continuing
the war — hardly a result sought by state
propaganda.
Among the most important steps the
free world could take to further under-
mine the Kremlin’s hateful messaging
would be to support independent Russian
media — such as Echo of Moscow, TV Rain
and Novaya Gazeta — that were shut down
after Putin’s attack on Ukraine and are
now operating from abroad. Nothing
weakens official lies as effectively as truth-
ful information. No less important — es-
pecially looking ahead — is to pursue
accountability for the people who operate
Putin’s propaganda machine. Sanctions
are merited (and long overdue) — but not
enough.
As high-level conversations begin
about a future international tribunal over
the Putin regime’s war crimes in Ukraine,
plans should also be made to bring to
account those who incited and enabled
them — in the same way Nazi propagan-
dists were tried at Nuremberg, or the
operators of Radio Mille Collines at the
U.N. criminal tribunal for Rwanda. Speak-
ing recently on one of the television talk
shows, Margarita Simonyan, head of the
leading Kremlin propaganda outlet RT,
warned that in the event of Putin’s failure
in Ukraine, “The Hague [the seat of inter-
national courts] awaits even the street
sweeper behind the Kremlin wall.”
I don’t think anyone would suggest that
street sweepers working for the Kremlin
should be brought to justice. But the likes
of Simonyan, Kiselyov, Solovyov and other
Putin regime propagandists certainly
should.
Amid this backbiting, amplified by
Russian military bloggers, Putin decided
to hand Gerasimov the poisoned chalice
of direct command. The man he will re-
place, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, is said to
have counseled caution in protecting the
Russian army in Kherson and elsewhere
— and was also friendly with Prigozhin.
Gerasimov will try to restore military
order among bickering commanders and
also initiate complex operations of the
sort he envisioned in 2013. One expert
skeptically recalls a Russian proverb: “He
can’t outleap himself.”
As the new year dawns, Ukraine ap-
pears to be generating momentum. The
United States and its NATO allies are
providing a new arsenal of mobile weap-
ons — tanks and heavy armored vehicles
that would, in theory, allow the Ukraini-
ans to conduct American-style maneuver
warfare. Just as important, NATO is pro-
viding Ukrainian soldiers with a crash
course in using these weapons effectively.
“This is one of those moments in time
where if you want to make a difference, this
is it,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, told American trainers
in a visit Monday to a camp in Germany,
where Ukrainian soldiers are getting a
rush education in what the Pentagon likes
to call “combined arms operations.”
A big question is whether the Ukraini-
ans will have enough mobile firepower to
conduct the kind of maneuver warfare
that NATO commanders advocate. So far,
the United States has promised about
50 Bradley fighting vehicles, Germany has
pledged about 40 Marder fighting vehi-
cles and Britain has pledged 14 Challenger
tanks. That’s not even close to the
300 tanks that Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the
Ukrainian commander, has requested.
More mobile armor might be on the
way with the possibility that Germany will
release scores of Leopard tanks and Wash-
ington will provide Stryker combat vehi-
cles. I hope so. This year might prove
decisive in Ukraine. Having wisely urged
Ukraine to adopt maneuver warfare
against Gerasimov’s battered, bunkered
forces, the United States and its allies
shouldn’t support this effort halfway. The
West has a strategy: So, go for it.
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reprisals. The draft report details

how most platforms did not take
“dramatic” steps to rein in ex-
tremist content until after the
attack on the Capitol, despite
clear red flags across the internet.
“The sum of this is that alt-
tech, fringe, and mainstream
platforms were exploited in tan-
dem by right-wing activists to
bring American democracy to the
brink of ruin,” the staffers wrote
in their memo. “These platforms
enabled the mobilization of ex-
tremists on smaller sites and
whipped up conservative griev-
ance on larger, more mainstream
ones.”
But little of the evidence sup-
porting those findings surfaced
during the public phase of the
committee’s probe, including its
845-page report that focused al-
most exclusively on Trump’s ac-
tions that day and in the weeks
just before.
That focus on Trump meant
the report missed an opportunity
to hold social media companies
accountable for their actions, or
lack thereof, even though the
platforms had been the subject of
intense scrutiny since Trump’s
first presidential campaign in
2016, the people familiar with the
matter said.
Confronting that evidence
would have forced the committee
to examine how conservative
commentators helped amplify
the Trump messaging that ulti-
mately contributed to the Capitol
attack, the people said — a course
that some committee members
considered both politically risky
and inviting opposition from
some of the world’s most power- BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST

ful tech companies, two of the
people said.
“Given the amount of material
they actually ultimately got from
the big social media companies, I
think it is unfortunate that we
didn’t get a better picture of how
‘Stop the Steal’ was organized
online, how the materials
spread,” said Heidi Beirich, co-
founder of the Global Project
Against Hate and Extremism
nonprofit. “They could have done
that for us.”
The Washington Post has pre-
viously reported that Rep. Liz
Cheney (R-Wyo.), the committee’s
co-chair, drove efforts to keep the
report focused on Trump. But
interviews since the report’s re-
lease indicate that Rep. Zoe Lof-
gren, a Democrat whose North-
ern California district includes
Silicon Valley, also resisted ef-
forts to bring more focus in the
report onto social media compa-
nies.
Lofgren denied that she op-
posed including a social media
appendix in the report or more
detail about what investigators
learned in interviews with tech
company employees.
“I spent substantial time edit-
ing the proposed report so it was
directly cited to our evidence,
instead of news articles and opin-
ion pieces,” Lofgren said. “In the
end, the social media findings
were included into other parts of
the report and appendixes, a
decision made by the Chairman
in consultation with the Commit-
tee.”
Committee Chairman Bennie
G. Thompson (D-Miss.) did not
respond to a request for com-
ment. Thompson previously had
said that the committee would
examine what steps tech compa-
nies took to prevent their plat-
forms from “being breeding
grounds to radicalizing people to
violence.” Rep. Jamie Raskin
(D-Md.), who sat in on some of
the depositions of tech employ-
ees, did not comment.
Understanding the role social
media played in the Jan. 6 attack
on the Capitol takes on greater
significance as tech platforms
undo some of the measures they
adopted to prevent political mis-
information on their sites. Under
new owner Elon Musk, Twitter
has laid off most of the team that
reviewed tweets for abusive and
inaccurate content and restored
several prominent accounts that
the company banned in the fall-
out from the Capitol attack, in-
cluding Trump’s and that of his
first national security adviser,
Michael Flynn. Facebook, too, is
considering allowing Trump
back on its platform, a decision
expected as early as next week.
“Recent events demonstrate
that nothing about America’s
stormy political climate or the
role of social media within it has
fundamentally changed since
January 6th,” the staffers’ draft
memo warned.
Social media moderation also
has become a flash point in the
states. Both Texas and Florida
passed laws in the wake of
Trump’s suspension to restrict
what content social media plat-
forms can remove from their
sites, while California has im-
posed legislation requiring com-
panies to disclose their content
moderation policies.
A memo circulated among Jan. 6 committee members but not publicly released said tech platforms failed to heed employees’ warnings about violent rhetoric ahead of the
assault of the Capitol. Congressional investigators found that moderators working for tech companies were hampered by primitive technologies and amateurish techniques.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), left, resisted efforts to focus more of
the panel’s report on social media companies, interviews indicate.
But the Jan. 6 committee re-
port offered only a vague recom-
mendation about social media
regulation, writing that congres-
sional committees “should con-
tinue to evaluate policies of me-
dia companies that have had the
effect of radicalizing their con-
sumers.”
Did Twitter give Trump a
pass?
Some of what investigators
uncovered in their interviews
with employees of the platforms
contradicts Republican claims
that tech companies displayed a
liberal bias in their moderation
decisions — an allegation that
has gained new attention recent-
ly as Musk has promoted a series
of leaked internal communica-
tions known as the “Twitter
Files.” The transcripts indicate
the reverse, with former Twitter
employees describing how the
company gave Trump special
treatment.
Twitter employees, they testi-
fied, could not even view the
former president’s tweets in one
of their key content moderation
tools, and they ultimately had to
create a Google document to
keep track of his tweets as calls
grew to suspend his account.
“Twitter was terrified of the
backlash they would get if they
followed their own rules and
applied them to Donald Trump,”
said one former employee, who
testified to the committee under
the pseudonym J. Johnson.
The committee staffers who
focused on social media and ex-
tremism — known within the
committee as “Team Purple” —
spent more than a year sifting
through tens of thousands of
documents from multiple com-
panies, interviewing social media
company executives and former
staffers, and analyzing thousands
of posts. They sent a flurry of
subpoenas and requests for infor-
mation to social media compa-
nies ranging from Facebook to
fringe social networks including
Gab and the chat platform Dis-
cord.
Yet as the investigation contin-
ued, the role of social media took
a back seat, despite Chairman
Thompson’s earlier assertion
that how misinformation spread
and what steps social media com-
panies took to prevent it were
“two key questions for the Select
Committee.”
SHURAN HUANG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Committee staffers drafted
more subpoenas for social media
executives, including former
Twitter executive Del Harvey,
who was described in testimony
as key to Twitter’s decisions re-
garding Trump and violent rheto-
ric. But Cheney never signed off
on the subpoenas, two of the
people said, and they were never
sent. Harvey did not testify. At
one point, committee staffers dis-
cussed having a public hearing
focused on the role of social
media during the election, but
none was scheduled, the people
said.
The long debate about social
media
The role of social media has
been a central topic of American
politics since the 2016 presiden-
tial campaign, when hackers ac-
cessed emails from Democratic
Party servers and leaked the con-
tents onto the internet, and Rus-
sian trolls posing as Americans
posted misinformation on both
Twitter and Facebook, without
detection. Concern about the im-
pact of social media grew in the
aftermath of the 2020 election,
with Facebook and Twitter sus-
pending hundreds of accounts
for spreading false information
about the result as well as base-
less conspiracy theories about
balloting irregularities.
In the days before Jan. 6, 2021,
media reports documented
Trump’s call on Twitter for people
to rally in Washington — it’ll be
wild, he tweeted — and there was
growing talk of guns and poten-
tial violence on sites such as
Telegram, Parler and TheDon-
ald.win.
The Purple Team’s memo de-
tailed how the actions of roughly
15 social networks played a sig-
nificant role in the attack. It
described how major platforms
such as Facebook and Twitter,
prominent video streaming sites
including YouTube and Twitch
and smaller fringe networks such
as Parler, Gab and 4chan served
as megaphones for those seeking
to stoke division or organize the
insurrection. It detailed how
some platforms bent their rules
to avoid penalizing conservatives
out of fear of reprisals, while
others were reluctant to curb the
“Stop the Steal” movement after
the attack.
But as the committee’s probe
kicked its public phase into high
gear, the social media report was
repeatedly pared down, eventual-
ly to just a handful of pages.
While the memo and the evi-
dence it cited informed other
parts of the committee’s work,
including its public hearings and
depositions, it ultimately was not
included as a stand-alone chapter
or as one of the four appendixes.
In the weeks since the report
was released, however, some of
that evidence has trickled out as
the committee released hundreds
of pages of transcripts of inter-
views with former tech employ-
ees and dozens of documents.
The transcripts show the compa-
nies used relatively primitive
technologies and amateurish
techniques to watch for dangers
and enforce their platforms’
rules. They also show company
officials quibbling among them-
selves over how to apply the rules
to possible incitements to vio-
lence, even as the riot turned
violent.
The transcript of Anika Collier
Navaroli, one of the longest-ten-
ured members of Twitter’s safety
policy team, describes in detail
how the company’s systems were
outmatched as the pro-Trump
mob stormed the Capitol.
When the #ExecuteMikePence
hashtag started trending on Twit-
ter on Jan. 6, 2021, Collier Na-
varoli was sitting in her New York
apartment, scrolling through
thousands of death threats and
other hateful messages and try-
ing to remove them one by one.
Her main way of finding
tweets calling for Vice President
Mike Pence’s execution was by
pasting the hashtag into the Twit-
ter website’s search box, manual-
ly copying each tweet’s details
into an internal flagging tool and
then returning to the timeline as
more tweets poured in.
“I was doing that for … hours,”
she testified, saying only a few
other people that day were doing
the same work. “We didn’t stand
a chance.”
Collier Navaroli also faulted
top executives, including Twit-
ter’s Harvey, for blocking poten-
tial rule changes that would have
allowed company moderators to
take a more proactive stance to
reduce calls for violence. At one
point, Collier Navaroli said she
pushed the company to enact a
policy that would have restricted
tweets using hashtags like
#LockedandLoaded, which mod-
erators had seen being used by
people boasting they were armed
and ready to march on the Capi-
tol. Harvey, Collier Navaroli said,
had pushed back, arguing that
the phrase could be used by
people tweeting about self-de-
fense and should be allowed.
Harvey, who is no longer with
Twitter and advertises herself as
a public speaker, did not respond
to requests for comment sent to
her email or LinkedIn.
The Purple Team’s draft out-
lines how extremism and violent
rhetoric jumped from platform to
platform in the lead-up to Jan 6.
In the hours after Trump’s tweet
about how Jan. 6 would be wild,
the chat service Discord had to
shut down a server because
Trump’s supporters were using it
to plan how they could bring
firearms into Washington, ac-
cording to the memo.
The investigators also wrote
that much of the content that was
shared on Twitter, Facebook and
other sites came from Google-
owned YouTube, which did not
ban election fraud claims until
Dec. 9 and did not apply its policy
retroactively. The investigators
found that its lax policies and
enforcement made it “a reposito-
ry for false claims of election
fraud.” Even when these videos
weren’t recommended by You-
Tube’s own algorithms, they were
shared across other parts of the
internet.
“YouTube’s policies relevant to
election integrity were inad-
equate to the moment,” the staff-
ers wrote.
The draft report also says that
smaller platforms were not reac-
tive enough to the threat posed
by Trump. The report singled out
Reddit for being slow to take
down a pro-Trump forum called
“r/The-Donald.” The moderators
of that forum used it to “freely
advertise” TheDonald.win, which
hosted violent content in the
lead-up to Jan. 6.
Facebook parent company
Meta declined to comment. Twit-
ter, which has laid off the majori-
ty of its communications staff,
did not respond to a request for
comment.
YouTube spokeswoman Ivy
Choi said the company has long-
established policies against in-
citement, and that the company
began enforcing its election in-
tegrity rules once “enough states
certified election results.”
“As a direct result of these
policies, even before January 6
we terminated thousands of
channels, several of which were
associated with figures related to
the attack, and removed thou-
sands of violative videos, the
majority before 100 views,” she
said in a statement.
Reddit spokeswoman Camer-
on Njaa said the company’s pol-
icies prohibit content that “glori-
fies, incites or calls for violence
against groups of people or indi-
viduals.” She said the company
“found no evidence of coordinat-
ed calls for violence” related to
Jan. 6 on its platform.
Discord “strongly condemns
the attack on the U.S. Capitol on
January 6th” and is committed to
“combating violence and extrem-
ism of any kind,” said Rachel
Beckerman, the company’s direc-
tor of global policy communica-
tions.
Former Facebook employees
who testified to the committee
reported that their company also
resisted imposing restrictions.
Brian Fishman, the company’s
former head of dangerous or-
ganizations, testified that the
company had been slow to react
to efforts to delegitimize the 2020
election results.
“I thought Facebook should be
more aggressive in taking down
‘Stop the Steal’ stuff before Janu-
ary 6th,” Fishman said. He noted,
however, that broader action
would have resulted in taking
down “much of the conservative
movement on the platform, far
beyond just groups that said
‘Stop the Steal,’ mainstream con-
servative commentators.”
He said he did not believe such
action “would have prevented
violence on January 6th.”
The committee also spoke to
Facebook whistleblower Frances
Haugen, whose leaked docu-
ments in 2021 showed that the
country’s largest social media
platform largely had disbanded
its election integrity efforts
ahead of the Jan. 6 riot. But little
of her account made it into the
final document.
“It’s sad that they didn’t in-
clude the intentional choices that
Facebook made,” she said in an
interview. “At the same time,
you’re asking them to do a lot of
different things in a single re-
port.”
Deference to Trump
A large part of Twitter’s failure
to act, multiple former Twitter
employees, including Johnson
and Collier Navaroli, told the
committee, was deference to
Trump.
Trump’s account was the only
one of Twitter’s hundreds of mil-
lions that rank-and-file officials
could not review in one of their
main internal tools, Profile View-
er, which allowed moderators to
establish a history and share
notes about an account’s past
tweets and behaviors, the em-
ployees testified.
The block prevented modera-
tors from reviewing how others
had assessed Trump’s tweets,
even as his following grew to
88 million and his tweets drove
conversations around the world.
Trump “was a unique user who
sat above and beyond the rules of
Twitter,” Collier Navaroli testi-
fied.
“There was this underlying
understanding we’re not reach-
ing out to the President,” she told
the committee. “We’re not reach-
ing out to Donald Trump. There
is no point in doing education
here because this is how this
individual is. So the resolution
was to do nothing.”
Collier Navaroli and a few
others inside the company had
worked to push executives to
action long before Jan. 6, she
said, citing internal memos and
messages. In the week after the
November 2020 election, she
said, they began warning that
tweets calling for civil unrest
were multiplying. By Dec. 19, she
said, Twitter staff had begun
warning that discussions of civil
unrest had centralized on Jan. 6
— the day that Trump had called
his supporters to mass in Wash-
ington, saying it “will be wild!”
By Dec. 29, she and members
of other Twitter teams had begun
warning that Twitter lacked a
coordinated response plan, and
on Jan. 5, she said, she warned a
supervisor directly that the com-
pany would need a much more
robust response the following
day.
When asked by a committee
staffer whether Twitter had ad-
opted a “war footing,” having
seen the warnings, Collier Na-
varoli said her U.S. team had
fewer than six people, and that
“everybody was acting as if it was
a regular day and nothing was
going on.”

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For Black voters, great expectations of Md.’s first Black governor
BY
AND
O VETTA W IGGINS,
E RIN C OX
L ATESHIA B EACHUM
It’s a point Wes Moore made
dozens if not hundreds of times
while asking for votes last year:
He wasn’t running to make his-
tory.
But for many Black voters who
helped lift Moore to victory, this
moment — as he prepares to take
his oath on a Bible that belonged
to the abolitionist Frederick
Douglass, who was born enslaved
in Maryland and died free — is one
of pride and great expectations.
“It’s a season of hope for Mary-
land,” said Andre Christian, the
executive minister at Greater
Tensions
spill over
for Metro,
regulator
Dispute highlights
strain between pushes
for safety, more service
BY J USTIN G EORGE
A new spat between Metro and
its regulator has put their rela-
tionship under scrutiny and
stirred discussion about the effec-
tiveness of an oversight arrange-
ment Congress created six years
ago to make Metrorail safer.
The dispute between Metro
and the Washington Metrorail
Safety Commission is the second
to become public in three
months, this time pushing Metro
board members to call for outside
mediation, as well as changes in
the structure of a relationship
they say had grown untenable.
The flare-up highlights the bal-
ance in rail transit between serv-
ice levels and safety, pitting a
transit agency facing pandemic-
era economic woes against a com-
mission tasked with guarantee-
ing safety after years of Metrorail
violations and the 2015 smoke-
inhalation death of a passenger. It
threatens Metro’s short-term
plans for restoring more of its
suspended rail cars in a bid to
improve train frequency, attract
more riders and boost its sagging
finances.
“The spirit by which the rela-
tionship exists at this point has
really devolved into what feels
like a lot of gotcha-type of behav-
ior and not constructive toward
understanding that Metro has a
job to do to move the region, as
well as being safe,” Metro board
member and Loudoun County
Supervisor Matthew F. Le-
tourneau (R-Dulles) said in a
news conference Monday that
Metro convened to protest the
safety commission’s recent ac-
tions.
The commission and Metro
have come to loggerheads over
the transit agency’s desire to in-
crease service by using more of its
suspended 7000-series rail cars.
The commission stopped Metro
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Youths weigh in on violence and who’s to blame
This year’s Martin
Luther King Jr.
Day activities in
D.C. included
discussions about
curbing youth
Courtland violence — which
Milloy Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) has
called “an emergency.” One of the
best talks I heard featured young
Black people from Southeast
Washington. This is a
demographic frequently
stereotyped as lazy and violent,
so it was great to see them get a
rare opportunity to set the
record straight.
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Moore seen as a catalyst
to help address racial
He becomes the first Black gover-
nor of Maryland, the third to be
elected in the nation’s history and
the only Black person to hold the
wealth gap, child poverty office of governor in the United
States today.
Black voters who were inter-
viewed said that in choosing
Mount Nebo A.M.E. Church in
Bowie.
An author, combat veteran and
former nonprofit chief, Moore
Moore, they weighed the state’s
persistent inequities in educa-
tion, employment and economic
opportunities. They described
will be sworn in Wednesday on the political newcomer and
the steps of the State House, just former head of a large poverty-
blocks from Annapolis City Dock, fighting nonprofit organization
one of the Chesapeake region’s as a catalyst needed to help end
earliest slave ports, and where child poverty and close a racial
the author Alex Haley’s Kunta wealth gap that, according to the
Kinte, who was captured in Gam- Federal Reserve, leaves the typi-
bia in 1767, was sold into slavery. cal White family with eight times
Laura Masur, an assistant professor of anthropology at Catholic University, gathers with volunteers Monday to help clear
brush from a site where at least 200 concealed graves were found at a Catholic church in Bowie.
RETROPOLIS
A church that once enslaved people
sees the light in a chapel cemetery
BY S TEVE H ENDRIX
Volunteers in
Kevin Porter stood on a steep slope Bowie clear
Monday and marveled as his family his-
tory slowly emerged from a stubborn
debris from
tangle of undergrowth and racism. stones that
Yard by yard, volunteers and archaeol-
ogists were clearing brush and brambles
mark at least
from the woods around Sacred Heart 200 graves
Chapel in Bowie, bringing sunlight to
more and more of the long-hidden stones
that marked the graves of Porter’s ances-
tors.
Porter’s forebears and hundreds of oth-
er enslaved people had once worked and
worshiped at this Jesuit outpost near the
Patuxent River, held in bondage by some
of the priests and brothers who were
building the Catholic church in the nas-
cent United States. Their final resting
places have long faded from view, sub-
“I think the biggest challenge of it while diagnosing the
we face is not being heard,” said problem and searching for
Keyon Williams, who attends solutions.
Anacostia High School in Ar’Dinay Blocker, 20, serves as
Southeast. “I have encountered a “credible messenger” in the
adults who ask us what is wrong city’s effort to reach at-risk
or what do you need, and they youths and get them out of
say ‘I hear you.’ But they don’t do harm’s way. One of the causes of
anything. It’s a fake presence. It’s violence she cited was the post-
fake love. ‘I’m here for you,’ but traumatic stress disorder that
not really.” affects the kids who grow up in
Fake love, feeling betrayed, dysfunctional, often fatherless
misled, “mis-educated,” lack of households. She quoted rapper
empathy and compassion from Meek Mill to make her point.
adults — those were cited as “Mama taught you how to
unacknowledged contributors to fight right before she taught you
violence. And yet, the youths how to write right. And daddy
have been able to withstand all locked in a cell and not here to
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Fay Weldon, 91, an acerbic Art McNally, 97, the NFL’s
British author, wrote “father of instant replay,”
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the wealth of a Black one.
“He has more of an under-
standing of the problems of the
population more than any other
Carl Snowden, a longtime civil
rights activist and the convener
of the Caucus of African Ameri-
can Leaders, likened the expecta-
quashes
person,” said Legrand Ouado, 57,
an immigrant from Cameroon
who lives in Bowie and works as a
special-education teacher.
tions of the promise of Moore’s
governance to those of Barack
Obama’s presidency.
“It’s huge, huge, huge,” he said,
veto by
Moore’s campaign theme to
“leave no one behind” resonated,
especially among Black voters
who have overcome entrenched
emphasizing each word. “Those
expectations, when they come
from Black people, those expecta-
tions come from slave ships. The
Bowser
legacies of slavery, lynchings and ancestors, people who came here
Jim Crow laws only to experience from slave ships, didn’t know
the cumulative toll of racist pol- what the New World would hold CRIME BILL AT
icies today — with shorter life but hoped for the very best. We’re CENTER OF DISPUTE
expectancies and facing discrimi- SEE MOORE ON B4
nation in banking, with home
appraisals and in interactions Swearing-in: Moore will be using D.C. mayor and police
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BY O MARI D ANIELS AND
M ICHAEL B RICE- S ADDLER
The D.C. Council on Tuesday
voted to override Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser’s (D) veto of a major
overhaul of the city’s criminal
code, which city lawmakers had
unanimously approved in No-
vember despite concerns from
court and law enforcement lead-
ers.
Lawmakers voted 12-1 to over-
ride Bowser’s veto of the bill, with
Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8)
breaking from the rest of the
council. Council member Charles
Allen (D-Ward 6), who chaired
the public safety committee
when the legislation passed, said
lawmakers “stand at the finish
line of a 16-year process that
would make significant improve-
ments and modernize an outdat-
ed criminal code from another
era.”
“I am frustrated. This veto
should not have happened,” Allen
said. “A veto is a defense of the
status quo, and I am grateful this
council is forward-looking.”
The bill would, among other
things, eliminate most manda-
tory minimum sentences, allow
for jury trials in almost all misde-
meanor cases, and reduce the
maximum penalties for offenses
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such as burglaries, carjackings
and robberies. Law enforcement
leaders had expressed concern
that it could burden an already
stretched court system and would
send the wrong message to resi-
dents at a time when the city is
struggling with gun violence.
“This bill does not make us
safer,” Bowser wrote in a letter to
Council Chairman Phil Mendel-
son (D), announcing her veto.
Lawmakers shot back Tuesday
that the bill was a necessary
reform of the city’s outdated
criminal code, and they took
sumed by nature even as the adjacent
cemetery for White parishioners was
direct aim at the mayor’s criti-
cism, which they said could be
tidied and honored through the ages. used as fodder for members of
When recent research pinpointed the
location of at least 200 concealed graves
Congress who can block city
legislation. Republicans in the
on the overgrown hillsides surrounding House have already threatened
the chapel, some hailed the “discovery” of
an African American cemetery. But for
to target the measure. But resolu-
tions disapproving D.C. legisla-
families of those buried, including some tion must pass both chambers
who have repeatedly beseeched the par- and be signed by the president.
ish for information on their ancestors, Democrats have a narrow majori-
there was nothing new about it. ty in the Senate.
“We’ve been telling them for a long “It is irresponsible for the
time that there are probably graves going mayor to have characterized this
all the way down to the road,” said Porter, as ‘This bill does not make us
42, who has studied the genealogy of the safer,’” Mendelson said at Tues-
enslaved families and their descendants day’s meeting. “That is irrespon-
who populated the Jesuits’ White Marsh sible rhetoric, and it plays into
plantation here on a tributary of the folks like the Freedom Caucus in
Patuxent River. Congress who are going to use
SEE RETROPOLIS ON B2 the mayor’s veto and her rhetoric
against us when this bill goes up
towards Congress.”
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kiss you nite nite,’” she said.
“Does that not tell you that PTSD
exists in our youths?”
In 2022, 16 juveniles were shot
and killed in D.C. and 82 were
shot and wounded. Of the 1,400
youths arrested, 200 were picked
up for violent crimes —
homicide, carjacking and armed
robbery.
The youth panel was one of
several conversations about
violence organized by the
political activist group Don’t
Mute DC and held Saturday at
the Anacostia Arts Center. MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST
Ronald Moten, co-founder of Ronald Moten speaks with Watkins Hornets youth football players
SEE MILLOY ON B2 in 2021. Saturday’s panel was set up by his Don’t Mute DC group.
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Dolores Bell Missouri helps clear brush and brambles at Sacred Heart Chapel in Bowie, where at least 200 graves of enslaved people — including Missouri’s ancestors — were found.
Graves of enslaved found
at Md. church cemetery
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Porter was bending over a just-
uncovered stone, trying to make
out the faint carving to see if it was
one of the family names he has
studied, the Queens, Campbells
and Taylors.
Most of the gravestones are
simple field rocks embedded up-
right in the soil. It will take close
analysis — and maybe electronic
imaging — to see if any retain
traces of lettering. But a few yards
away, volunteers were raking de-
bris from the clearly carved stone
of Monica A. Queen (1860 to
1889), Porter’s great-great-great-
aunt.
Or maybe great-great-great-
great. “I think it’s four genera-
tions,” he said. “I’ve been through
so much material.”
For decades, the graves have
existed in a parallel history tend-
ed mostly by their descendants
and a few specialist historians.
Now, as part of a burgeoning ac-
counting of enslavement by Jesuit
institutions, the cemetery has
burst into the public glare.
In the fall, the parish had much
of the area analyzed with
ground-penetrating radar, which
revealed the potential outlines of
a significant burial site. Crews
have cleared tons of dogged un-
COURTLAND MILLOY
Youths make it clear there’s plenty of blame to go around for violence in D.C.
MILLOY FROM B1
Don’t Mute DC, noted that the
youth panelists were among
those who had received help in
overcoming obstacles to staying
in school, as well as staying alive.
And while they were still having
difficulties navigating a rapidly
changing and increasingly
expensive city, they were
speaking as much for their less
fortunate classmates as for
themselves.
Jamal Holz, who moderated
the panel, was a good example.
He was raised by a single mother,
never knew his father, had no
role models and for a time was
homeless. Then someone helped
him get into the Marion Barry
Youth Leadership Institute,
which led to enrollment in the
Friendship Collegiate Academy
Public Charter School and on to
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dergrowth from the pitched
slopes between the 18th-century
chapel and a new church built in
1962. On Monday, dozens of Cath-
olic University of America stu-
dents arrived to aid the effort in
observance of Martin Luther King
Jr. Day, planting small flags at
each revealed gravestone and oth-
er objects of potential interest.
“If you see something cool,
don’t move it,” project leader Lau-
ra Masur called out as volunteers
began putting on gloves and gath-
ering rakes and saws. “Even an old
bottle may have been left as a
grave offering.”
Masur is a Catholic University
archaeologist and a specialist in
the cemeteries of enslaved people.
She has recently been researching
uncovered gravestones at the
17th-century St. Francis Xavier
parish in Newtowne. The Archdi-
ocese of Washington, which now
owns the White Marsh properties,
asked her to help clear and map
this cemetery and to work with
descendants on plans to restore or
curate the site.
A memorial seems likely, ac-
cording to the descendants who
have participated in early discus-
sions. Widespread excavations do
not. No matter how valuable the
historical data that might be re-
vealed, it wouldn’t be worth fur-
the University of Rochester,
where he was elected student
body president.
Now, at age 24, he is the
youngest executive at Link
Strategic Partners, a consulting
firm in D.C.
“The young people are not
asking for a handout,” he said.
“They want an investment. In
their quest for success, don’t just
tell them where to go, show them
how to get there.”
The young people also felt that
the quality of education in D.C.
public schools was culpable —
with frazzled teachers,
disconnected school
administrators, curriculum that
they considered irrelevant,
blatant racial disparities and
broken promises to improve
their facilities demoralizing
students and contributing to the
high dropout rate.
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TOP: Many of the graves at Sacred Heart Chapel’s cemetery are
marked by simple stones like this one. ABOVE: Descendants of
enslaved people and student volunteers gather for an opening
prayer before helping clear the site on Monday.
“One problem we face is not
having the space just to be a kid,”
said Jordan Williams, who
attends Richard Wright Public
Charter School. “I don’t think
[adults] understand the issues.
The little stresses that combine
every day that take a mental toll.
Like getting to school, a lot of
people want money,” he said.
“Then worrying about getting
home, then doing your
homework. Sometimes you have
responsibilities that keep you
from just sitting down and
resting.”
What they wanted were school
reforms tailored toward them for
a change. More than 30,000 —
nearly a third of the school
system’s 94,000 students — live
in Wards 7 and 8, the poorest in
the city.
“I feel like it’s an old argument
but the books that we have
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should be more expansive and
we shouldn’t be limited to a
classroom to learn,” Keyon
Williams said. “My experience
with other classmates is that we
don’t all learn the same. Putting
some on a pedestal and
comparing them to others just
makes the others feel bad about
themselves.”
Eris Busey, an eighth-grader at
Two Rivers Public Charter
School, said: “We need a
financial literacy program.
Implement financial literacy for
a lot of the youth.”
If ever there was a need for a
financial literacy curriculum, it
would be in the schools that
serves these youths.
D.C. Public Schools has a
$2.2 billion budget — but only
two public high schools teach
stand-alone personal finance
courses. Apparently, the students
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ther desecrating graves that al-
ready have been shamefully ne-
glected, Masur said.
“They never should have been
allowed to become so overgrown,”
she said. “Cemeteries are sacred
places, and you have to have an
exceptionally good reason to dig
up a body.”
The flurry of activity is part of a
wave of reckoning over slavery
that took off when Georgetown
University revealed in 2016 that
its Jesuit founders had sold 272
enslaved people into forced labor
in Louisiana in 1838. Eighty-nine
of those people were taken from
White Marsh, a 2,500-acre com-
pound that had been bequeathed
— along with 30 enslaved people
— to the Society of Jesus by a
member of Maryland’s Carroll dy-
nasty more than a century earlier.
Georgetown, which was born of
plans made by Jesuits at White
Marsh, has pledged a range of
initiatives to make amends to the
descendants of those enslaved
people, including admission to
the university and reparation
grants, although some activists
have charged the school with
dragging its feet.
For many descendants, the new
attention to the Sacred Heart
cemetery is as painful as it is
overdue.
“Excuse me,” a man said to
Masur as she was heading toward
the work site. “My great-great-
great-grandmother is buried here.
Why is this happening now?”
Boyd Campbell, an Annapolis
real estate broker, grew up and
are not the only ones who need
to know how to manage money.
Holtz, the moderator,
cautioned about an overreliance
on government. “We should
never automatically assume that
government is the solution,” he
said. “Governments can build
infrastructure but not a
successful family. Building
families and communities
requires a coalition effort.”
But the students were aware
that government could do a
whole lot more. At a subsequent
panel discussion featuring the
city’s top public safety officials,
Police Chief Robert J. Contee III
gave an example of what is
possible. The city’s police
department had an operating
budget of $516.8 million, which
included a $3.4 million
expansion of the Police Cadet
program.
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was confirmed in this parish,
helping with Masses even when
some White churchgoers
wouldn’t put money in a collec-
tion plate carried by a Black atten-
dant.
His father and seven siblings
talked frequently about their an-
cestors resting somewhere on this
land. They came multiple times to
the chapel in search of informa-
tion that would let them tend to
these family graves as they did in
other cemeteries.
“They always said there was
nothing they could do, no docu-
ments, nothing,” Campbell said.
“We tried and tried and nothing
happened because of the color of
our skin.”
On Monday, he looked at the TV
crews interviewing young volun-
teers. “And now it’s a spectacle,” he
said, his voice breaking. “I have
very bittersweet feelings right
now.”
Masur said, “I want to personal-
ly apologize to you.” She asked
him to please be involved in the
mapping and preservation, in the
planning for the future.
“He’s right to be mad,” she said
later. “If we’re being blunt, it’s
happening now because White
people have decided it’s impor-
tant. I’m glad it’s happening, but it
makes me sad.”
She went back to work, helped
by Porter and others who share
names and heritage with those
buried all around.
Just then, a saw screamed, a
branch fell and a bit more light
penetrated the gloom.
“Our Police Cadet program
includes people who are seniors
in high school, and they can get
employed while in high school,”
he explained. “Upon graduation,
they are instantly enrolled in
college, instantly enrolled in a
health-care program and
instantly have a full-time job
waiting for them. So, all of these
things that ought to be a
guarantee for our young people,
I’m trying to do to make sure
they have those guarantees.”
That’s happening in the police
department. It ought to be
happening throughout the D.C.
public schools, which, ironically,
are ramping up efforts to track
down truants as if they were
outlaws.
“You say you are disappointed
in us?” Blocker said to adults at
the youth panel. “No, we are
disappointed in you.”
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L O CAL DI G EST
THE DISTRICT
Driver charged in fatal
crash in Northwest
A man from Philadelphia has
been charged with driving under
the influence and reckless driving
following a collision in downtown
Washington on Sunday that
involved two vehicles and left a
man dead, according to police
and court documents.
The crash occurred about
6:10 p.m. at 15th Street and
Massachusetts Avenue NW. Police
said in court documents the
driver of a Jeep Cherokee went
through a red light and collided
with an Uber whose driver was
making a turn on a green light.
Police said the man who died,
Carlos Enrique Christian, 24, of
Northwest Washington, was a
passenger in the Uber.
Authorities said the driver of
the Jeep, Reginald Johnson, 30,
was arrested after police said he
failed a sobriety test administered
after an officer smelled alcohol on
his breath and reported he
showed signs of impairment,
according to a police arrest
affidavit filed in D.C. Superior
Court.
Johnson, who also was charged
with operating a vehicle while
impaired and aggravated reckless
driving causing bodily harm, was
released from custody Monday
pending a court hearing
scheduled for Feb. 6.
Johnson’s attorney did not
respond to a request for
comment.
D.C. police said in a statement
they had filed more serious felony
charges against Johnson. A
spokeswoman for the U.S.
attorney’s office said the case
remains under investigation.
Attempts to reach Christian’s
family were not successful on
Tuesday.
According to the court
affidavit, Johnson was driving the
Jeep east on Massachusetts
Avenue and went through a red
light as the Uber driver in a
Toyota Corolla was turning left off
a westbound lane of
Massachusetts Avenue onto 15th
Street. Police said the Uber driver
had a green light.
The impact of the collision sent
the Jeep into the side of a
building, police said. Five other
people were injured, including
the Uber driver and a female
passenger. Police said the others
who were hurt were in the Jeep.
— Peter Hermann
and Alice Crites
VIRGINIA
Rouse to be sworn in
after flipping seat
Aaron Rouse, a former
National Football League player
who runs a youth-focused
nonprofit organization and
served four years on the Virginia
Beach City Council, will be sworn
into the state Senate on
Wednesday, after unofficial
results were finalized in the
special election to fill the Virginia
Beach-based seat.
With the completed tabulation
of provisional and post-election
ballots on Tuesday afternoon,
unofficial results showed Rouse
narrowly defeating Republican
Kevin Adams, a retired Navy
lieutenant commander who runs
a home-improvement business.
The two men were competing for
the swing-district seat vacated by
Republican Jen A. Kiggans after
she was elected to Congress in
November.
Adams conceded the morning
after Rouse, who held a narrow
lead on election night, declared
victory in the Jan. 10 election. The
Virginia State Board of Elections
is scheduled to certify results of
the three special elections that
were held that day, which
included two races for state
House seats, on Wednesday
afternoon. Rouse will be sworn
into the Senate immediately after.
The race between Rouse and
Adams drew national attention
and heavy funding for its
potential impact on abortion
access in Virginia. Rouse made
abortion rights a focal point of his
campaign, while Adams said he
favored a proposal by Gov. Glenn
Youngkin (R) to ban abortion
after 15 weeks, with exceptions
for rape and incest, and to protect
the mother’s life. In the closely
divided Senate, Rouse’s victory
flips the seat and widens
Democrats’ majority to 22-18.
The General Assembly began
its annual session last week in
Richmond.
— Karina Elwood
John
Kelly's
Washington
He is away. His column will resume
when he returns.
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D.C. Council overrides Bowser’s veto of criminal code overhaul
COUNCIL FROM B1
Allen and Brooke Pinto (D-
Ward 2), the new public safety
chair, said in a joint statement
beforehand that the criminal
code was “more equitable and
just” but that they were open to
consideration of further amend-
ments before the bill was fully
implemented. Officials who sup-
port the code revisions have
stressed that the law would not
take effect for three years to give
police, courts and other groups
time to prepare.
“There is simply too much
good in this bill to abandon all of
that work, and without any back-
up plan from the mayor,” Pinto
said Tuesday.
Council member Brianne K.
Nadeau (D- Ward 1) called the
mayor’s veto a “distraction,” giv-
en that the council would over-
ride it.
“This is political theater to
create a perpetual scapegoat
whenever there are issues in the
future,” Nadeau said. “Do not
believe the hype. The council is
not tying the hands of our law
enforcement officials or making
crime worse.”
Bowser wrote in her letter to
Mendelson that while there was
“consensus agreement” on
95 percent of the bill, she op-
posed particular provisions low-
ering maximum sentences and
allowing for more jury trials. She
said the bill would weaken “al-
ready lenient sentencing for gun
possession” by reducing the
maximum penalties for carrying
a pistol without a license and
being a felon in possession of a
gun.
Gregg Pemberton, chairman of
the D.C. Police Union, said in a
statement that the law, once
enacted, would lead to “violent
crime rates exploding more than
they already have.”
“Every resident should be out-
raged that the Council has weak-
ened the criminal justice system
in a way that makes every neigh-
Lawmakers say they want input from Metro, panel about friction
METRO FROM B1
from acting on the plan while it
investigates possible deficiencies
in train operator and track work-
er training protocols, some of
which Metro has acknowledged.
“We could have been better in
documentation, but documenta-
tion should not be conflated that
everything we do has to actually
then be approved by the [safety
commission],” Metro General
Manager Randy Clarke said.
Metro on Monday appealed to
elected leaders to intervene, but
lawmakers remained largely un-
moved. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly
(D-Va.) said he will not allow
Metro to return to an era where
lax oversight coincided with fatal
accidents, frequent track fires
and other emergencies.
“We all witnessed the conse-
quences of Metro being allowed
to effectively police itself when it
comes to safety,” said Connolly,
who has held annual Metro over-
sight hearings as chair of the
House Oversight subcommittee
on government operations. “We
will not allow that to happen
again.”
Late last week, the safety com-
mission told Metro that it was
investigating multiple issues af-
ter it found Metro was training
track workers using outdated
safety standards. The commis-
sion also said it learned several
new train operators had not com-
pleted eight hours of rail yard
training with an instructor, as
required. Investigators also were
looking into whether Metro me-
chanics were returning trains to
service that Metro engineers
might have flagged, which Metro
officials denied and said was be-
ing mischaracterized.
The commission asked Metro
for more information on the
training and set a Wednesday
deadline.
Metro officials said the transit
agency combined rail yard train-
ing with passenger service train-
ing because of a train shortage.
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Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) near the scene of a shooting in Northwest Washington last week. Law enforcement leaders have expressed
concerns that the bill — which reduces some maximum sentences, among other things — will lead to an increase in violent crime.
borhood less safe,” Pemberton
said. “Their actions today are
shameful.”
Supporters of the bill have
countered that the reductions in
maximum penalties are in line
with what judges are actually
imposing.
“This isn’t some huge, mass
decarceration measure,” said Pa-
trice Sulton, founder and execu-
tive director of the DC Justice
Lab. “It’s making the code clear,
consistent, and constitutionally
sound.”
Metro acknowledged not inform-
ing the commission of the change
or documenting it, saying its new-
est operators are fully trained.
The agency filed an appeal to
the safety commission to explain
why it combined the training.
Hours after Metro told the public
to expect rail delays this week
while it pulled some operators for
additional training, the safety
commission’s chief executive, Da-
vid L. Mayer, extended Metro’s
deadline by a week, heading off
the need to curtail service.
Metro officials say their larger
complaint is that the commission
is blocking the transit agency
from taking a step toward restor-
ing pre-pandemic service levels.
Under a plan forged in October,
Metro was allowed to slowly re-
incorporate its 7000-series rail
cars if they passed wheel inspec-
tions every four days. If no prob-
lems arose, Metro would be able
to scale back the time-consuming
inspections to every seven days,
freeing up more cars for passen-
ger service.
The safety commission, howev-
er, has told Metro it cannot move
forward. Metro leaders, who hope
to reduce train waits to five min-
utes on some lines this summer,
said the commission overstepped
its authority. One board member
called the arrangement with the
commission “broken.”
Metro board members said
they understand the panel’s mis-
sion to detect safety problems,
adding that the commission
shouldn’t have the power to hin-
der Metro’s service. They said the
safety commission’s power needs
to be checked, raising concerns
that the only recrimination they
have to fight orders is to file an
appeal to the commission.
Safety commission spokesman
Max Smith said the appeals proc-
ess has been shown to work,
creating multiple compromises
with Metro’s support. The safety
commission does not interfere
with how Metro operates its sys-
tem, Smith said, adding that the
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In addition to the veto over- said Tuesday that because the April — making May ideal for
ride, the council on Tuesday measure unexpectedly ended up when it becomes law.
unanimously approved an emer- on November’s ballot instead of “This will mitigate confusion
gency bill to set a May 1 imple- the June primary, the city needed and provide business with suffi-
mentation date for Initiative 82, more time to implement the law. cient notice for the accurate im-
the ballot measure that will grad- (The D.C. Board of Elections in plementation of the law,” Bonds
ually increase minimum pay for the spring took weeks to deter- added. She said the delay will not
servers and other tipped workers mine whether backers had col- affect the remainder of the law’s
from $5.35 per hour to the city’s lected enough valid signatures, pay increase schedule: The next
full minimum wage, which is bumping it to the general elec- bump, to $8 per hour, is slated for
$16.50. Tipped workers had ex- tion and frustrating the meas- July and will be implemented as
pected to receive their first pay ure’s proponents.) planned.
increase to $6 per hour this Bonds said the delays also
month. extended the time Congress has Meagan Flynn contributed to this
But Anita Bonds (D-At Large) to review the measure — through report.
commission has no choice but to and we can begin to hash it out,” Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim
limit or stop service while it Korman wrote in an email. “Ev- Kaine, both Virginia Democrats,
investigates a potential problem. eryone seems to agree that safety issued a joint statement Tuesday
Smith said decisions the com- is the goal and it is just a question underlining the importance of
mission makes are not arbitrary, of how to get there.” the safety commission’s role.
as Metro has alleged, but are D.C. Council member Charles “Our top priority has always
directly related to possible viola- Allen (D-Ward 6) has also asked been ensuring the safety of Met-
tions the commission uncovers. both agencies to attend a Feb. 2 ro’s riders, and oversight is a
“You have these facts. You have Transportation Committee hear- necessary part in doing so,” they
these safety requirements, and ing to discuss the friction. said. “[Metro] and [the safety
[the fact] you’re not meeting Members of Congress who commission] need to be working
those safety requirements is not helped to create the commission, together to serve riders’ best in-
an opinion,” Smith said. “It’s not meanwhile, made clear their pri- terests.”
something to be argued over.” ority is passenger safety. Many Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said
Elected leaders said they want put the onus on Metro to make Metro has been shown to require
to hear from both agencies to the relationship work. “rigorous oversight” over the
understand why they can’t get Connolly said the commis- years.
along. sion’s oversight and communica- “It is far past time for Metro to
Maryland House Majority tions with Metro have not been establish a culture of safety, and a
Leader Marc A. Korman (D- perfect, but Metro “should not get constructive relationship with
Montgomery) said state officials to be problematic to a point of [the safety commission] is a pre-
have invited leaders of both or- making mediation necessary.” He requisite for success in this re-
ganizations to a hearing “and we added: “Finger-pointing won’t gard,” he said in a statement.
hope to use that venue to flesh protect riders. [Metro] and the Added Sen. Chris Van Hollen
this out a bit.” [safety commission] must come (D-Md.): “The bottom line is they
“And if [Metro] wants specific together and work out solutions need to put aside their differ-
changes, they should step for- that balance safety and reliabili- ences and work together to meet
ward and suggest them in detail ty.” these standards.”
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MARYLAND
Wes Moore to be sworn in as governor on Frederick Douglass’s Bible
Abolitionist’s tome seen
as adding symbolism to
Wednesday’s inaugural
BY J OE H EIM
Wes Moore’s left hand will rest
on history Wednesday when he
takes the oath of office and be-
comes Maryland’s first Black gov-
ernor and only the third Black
governor elected in the history of
the United States.
Underneath his palm as he
swears to “bear true allegiance to
the State of Maryland, and sup-
port the Constitution and Laws
thereof” will be a Bible that once
belonged to Frederick Douglass, a
Marylander born into slavery
who later escaped to freedom and
became a leading voice of aboli-
tion and an enduring champion
of equality and justice he never
saw fully realized.
Moore, who describes himself
as a student of Douglass, said that
including the Douglass Bible in
the ceremony would deliver sym-
bolic heft to the day but that he
had no idea whether it would
even be possible to arrange. The
moment the Democratic gover-
nor-elect learned the National
Park Service had approved his
request was “breathtaking,”
Moore said in an interview Friday.
“I’m not just an admirer, but
someone who is a true connois-
seur of his life, of his teachings, of
his writings,” Moore said. “And
I’ve wondered what he would
think about this moment, partic-
ularly with his life, with his sacri-
fice, with his frustrations.”
Moore, a political newcomer
who ran for governor on a pledge
to “leave no one behind” and a
platform of ending child poverty
and broadening economic oppor-
tunity for all Marylanders, said he
believes Douglass would be proud
of the state for achieving a goal
that seemed out of reach when
Douglass was alive. But he also
said the venerated anti-slavery
activist, who called on America to
live up to its promises of freedom
and equality, would not take satis-
faction that the work was com-
plete.
“I think he would caution that
A moment of pride for Md.’s Black voters as Wes Moore prepares to take oath
MOORE FROM B1
living in a very, very precarious
time. We don’t know what the
future will hold, but we are hop-
ing for the very best.”
In Maryland, long home to one
of the highest concentrations of
Black people outside of the Deep
South, about 1 in 3 registered
voters — nearly 1.4 million people
— identify as Black. And nearly 80
percent of Black respondents
polled within weeks of the elec-
tion said they would vote for
Moore if the election were held
that day. The corresponding fig-
ure among White voters polled
was 53 percent.
Ouado said he wants Moore to
address discriminatory practices
by police in a state that has led the
nation in incarcerating young
Black men, noting that Black
people are stopped at dispropor-
tionately high rates by law en-
forcement and “tend to go to jail
easily compared to other people.”
“We’re always at the bottom
when it comes to employment,
education,” said Adrion Howell, a
lawyer who lives in Bowie. “We’ve
been trying to do the same thing
for 40 to 50 years. And Prince
George’s is still at the bottom.
Baltimore is still at the bottom.”
Moore has publicly refocused
questions about the significance
of his identity to the history he
hopes to make while governing,
but the facts of his life as a Black
man and son of an immigrant
MARYLAND
Pilot of container ship that ran aground in Chesapeake surrenders license
BY H AYES G ARDNER
baltimore — The pilot aboard
the Ever Forward when it ran
aground in the Chesapeake Bay
has agreed to give up his pilot’s
license and never apply for an-
other, according to a recent docu-
ment from the Maryland Board of
Pilots.
The board, which licenses and
regulates pilots serving the Port
of Baltimore, agreed in exchange
not to fine Steven Germac.
The Ever Forward, a 1,100-foot
container ship, got stuck
March 13 after missing a turn in
the Craighill Channel and plow-
ing into shallow waters. It was
the swearing-in and the inaugu-
ration is not the task,” Moore said.
“It’s a powerful statement that the
state made. But if you don’t do
anything with this moment and
you don’t do anything with the
statement, then you’ve missed the
point.”
The well-worn Bible, embossed
with “Frederick Douglass” on the
front, is part of the Frederick
Douglass National Historic Site
museum collection, cared for by
the National Park Service. For the
swearing-in ceremony, it will be
in a specially designed protective
container held by Moore’s wife,
Dawn. Only the new governor’s
hand will touch it.
The Bible was a gift to Douglass
in 1889 from the congregation of
Washington’s Metropolitan Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Church,
one of the oldest Black churches
in the District. It was presented to
Douglass as he prepared to travel
to Haiti, where he would serve as
President Benjamin Harrison’s
U.S. resident minister and consul
general until July 1891, according
to information provided by the
Park Service.
“The history of Frederick
Douglass’s Bible transcends his
Gov.-elect Wes Moore tests the stage accommodations Tuesday for his inauguration. He is Maryland’s
first Black governor and the only Black person currently holding the governor’s office in the U.S.
matter in a diversifying state.
“There’s no way you could talk
about this inauguration without
talking about this state’s history
of racism,” Snowden said.
That history is common to
He also agrees to never
reapply for one to avoid
fine of up to $2,000
later revealed Germac was dis-
tracted by his cellphone.
The 10 months since have seen
an extensive salvage effort, a new
cellphone policy for pilots, efforts
to restore affected oyster bars,
and now, a permanently surren-
dered license.
Germac has not piloted a ship
since the incident, and his license
was suspended in October. In a
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work in the United States, and it
encompasses an additional win-
dow into understanding his inter-
national battle for equal rights,”
said Aaron Treadwell, an assis-
tant pastor at Metropolitan AME
Church from 2013 to 2017 and
now an assistant professor of his-
tory at Middle Tennessee State
University.
The Bible, Treadwell said, “was
thought to be a tool of protection
in his international travels, but it
also was a symbol to warrant his
inclusion in the fight for uplift in
Haiti.”
David W. Blight, a history pro-
fessor at Yale and author of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of
Freedom” said he thinks Douglass
“would be deeply honored” by
Moore’s decision to take the oath
of office on his Bible.
“Though Douglass’s actual per-
sonal faith changed over time, he
never, ever stopped using the Bi-
ble,” Blight said. “Especially the
Old Testament, especially for wis-
dom, for storytelling, and literally
for quote after quote after quote.”
Blight noted that Douglass pro-
fessed a deep love for Maryland,
even though he had spent his
most Southern states, said David
Taft Terry, an associate professor
of history at Morgan State Uni-
versity, noting that slavery in
Maryland continued beyond the
Emancipation Proclamation of
settlement agreement and con-
sent order signed Jan. 4 by Ger-
mac and Sandy Steeves, the chair
of the Board of Pilots, Germac
agreed to surrender his license
and never reapply for one.
The board alleged that because
Germac violated the Maryland
Pilots Act — which forbids pilot-
ing in a “negligent or reckless
manner” — it could “reprimand”
him and impose “up to a $2,000
civil monetary penalty.” But the
board accepted Germac’s offer “in
lieu of imposing a penalty.”
During the Ever Forward’s
two-hour transit from the port in
March, Germac was on the phone
for an hour, sent two text mes-
WES MOORE TRANSITION TEAM
Maryland Gov.-elect Wes
Moore, above, will take the
oath on a Bible that
belonged to abolitionist
and fellow Marylander
Frederick Douglass, above
right. Moore’s children
will hold a Bible that
belonged to his maternal
grandfather that Moore is
seen reading.
“No matter where
[Frederick
Douglass] went, not
just around the
country but around
the world, he
always was a proud
Marylander”
Gov.-elect Wes Moore, who
will take the oath of office
Wednesday on a Bible that once
belonged to Douglass
BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
1864.
“The Civil War forced slavery
from Maryland, and the civil
rights movement, such as it was,
didn’t occur until the federal gov-
ernment begins in the fifties, in
sages and drafted an email, per a
Coast Guard report from Decem-
ber. He was in an “agitated state”
over issues he had experienced at
the pier, the report said. The
Baltimore Sun has been unable to
reach Germac for comment.
The Board of Pilots had no rule
banning personal cellphone use
at the time, but it adopted such a
policy this month.
The Ever Forward was stuck
for more than a month as
dredges, barges and tugboats
sought to free it. It wasn’t until
500 containers were removed
and 210,000 cubic yards were
dredged that, with the help of
high tide from a full moon, the
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youth enslaved there. After escap-
ing slavery in 1838 and fleeing
north to freedom, Douglass
wouldn’t return to Maryland un-
til after the passage of a new
constitution in Maryland that
banned slavery in 1864.
Once slavery was banned,
Blight said, “Douglass an-
nounced, ‘I am going back to
Baltimore, to the soil of my birth,
to the free state of Maryland.’ And
he did. He went back to Fells
Point. And he spoke at the Bethel
AME Church, which is one of the
places he had worshiped as [an
enslaved] teenager.”
Moore, who was born in Tako-
ma Park and now lives in Balti-
more, finds a source of strength in
Douglass’s deep ties to his home
state.
“No matter where he went, not
just around the country but
around the world, he always was a
proud Marylander,” Moore said.
“And there is a beauty to that, to
have such a love and such a
fondness for a place and space
that never, never during his life-
time really understood or cher-
ished his value.”
Douglass’s Bible isn’t the only
one Moore is bringing to Wednes-
day’s ceremony. He also will have
his grandfather’s Bible, which his
children will hold during the
swearing-in ceremony. If Doug-
lass’s Bible represents Maryland
and the nation’s journey from
slavery to freedom to leadership,
Moore’s grandfather’s Bible is for
him a more personal but no less
important reminder of the Black
American experience.
James Thomas, Moore’s grand-
the sixties, to force Maryland and
the other Jim Crow states to
begin to change,” he said. “By that
definition, it’s the South, if only
from African American perspec-
tives.”
Before he takes the oath, facing
a statue of Baltimore native and
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thur-
good Marshall, Moore is expected
to join several prominent Black
leaders — U.S. Rep. Kweisi
Mfume (D-Md.), onetime NAACP
president and former Maryland
gubernatorial candidate Ben
Jealous, Attorney General Antho-
ny G. Brown, and former lieuten-
ant governors Boyd Rutherford
and Michael Steele — at the port
marker to recognize the long road
to this victory.
He takes the helm of a state
where a statue of Roger Brooke
Taney, a slavery defender and the
U.S. chief justice who wrote the
Supreme Court’s infamous Dred
Scott decision, stood on the
Statehouse grounds for 145 years
until its removal six years ago.
The removal followed the
violence in Charlottesville, where
a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a
crowd of counterprotesters, kill-
ing 32-year-old Heather Heyer as
white supremacists protested
plans to remove a statue of
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Howell, 52, originally from Vir-
ginia and an intern for then-Gov.
Douglas Wilder, the country’s
first Black governor, said Mary-
land needs a shake-up, a leader
ship was refloated.
Ever Forward’s owner, Ever-
green Marine Corp., will pay
nearly $700,000 to the state of
Maryland to enhance 41 local
oyster bars as a mitigation fee for
damage caused by the ship sitting
on the bay bottom.
An October letter to Germac
and signed by Steeves, which the
Sun obtained through a Public
Information Act request, stated
that the transit of the Ever For-
ward “should have been well
within your capabilities as a
Maryland Pilot, and you had am-
ple time and available resources
to avoid this incident.”
“Although other contributing
. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
father on his mother’s side, was
born in South Carolina to parents
who had come to America from
Jamaica. But the family returned
to Jamaica after his great-grand-
father, a minister, was threatened
by the Ku Klux Klan, Moore said.
Though scared away from
America, Moore said, his grandfa-
ther wanted to return because it
was the land of his birth and he
felt he belonged here. As a teen-
ager, James Thomas did come
back to the United States and
attended Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania.
He later moved to New York,
where he eventually became the
first Black minister in the Re-
formed Church in America,
Moore said. After Moore’s father
died when Moore was a young
boy, his mother moved the family
to New York to live with her
parents, and that’s where Moore
forged a deep bond with his
grandfather and his grandfather’s
faith.
“I love his Bible because it is
literally a workbook,” Moore said.
“It has tape that holds it together.
There is writing all over it. Literal-
ly questions that he’s asking. And
I love it because it always gives me
a sense of how he thinks.”
Thomas died in late 2005 while
Moore was serving in the Army in
Afghanistan. The idea that his
Bible will be part of the swearing-
in ceremony would make his
grandfather proud, Moore said,
but, like Douglass, he would not
have a sense that the job was
done. Moore thinks that as the
first Black clergy member of the
Reformed Church, his grandfa-
ther could give him advice on
being the first Black governor of
Maryland. And he thinks he
knows what that advice would be.
“While he was a first, he did not
want that to be the thing that
people remembered most, and I
think I very much approach it the
same way,” Moore said. “I’m cog-
nizant of the fact that I am first in
the state of Maryland and one of
less than a handful in this coun-
try’s history. But I think that when
it’s time for me to pass the baton
on, I want that to be something
mentioned as an afterthought. So
that we talk about all the work
that got done and, oh, by the way,
he was the first Black governor in
the history of Maryland.”
with new ideas and a different
way to approach the systemic
problems that plague the state.
Moore “represents optimism,”
said Howell, who is deeply con-
cerned about the state’s public
school system and its ability to
produce a highly educated work-
force. “It’s time to usher in a new
generation of leaders.”
Christian said the ascent of
Moore, the son of a Jamaican
mother who was widowed when
Moore was a young child, is a
celebration for Black people and
anyone with humble beginnings.
“He represents ‘I can start from
anywhere and go anywhere,’”
Christian said. “He represents to
me the American Dream.”
For Modi Sellu, 28, a U.S. per-
manent resident who lives and
works in a fusion of immigrant
cultures, the rise of Moore and
Aruna Miller, who will become
the first woman of color and the
first immigrant to serve in the
state’s No. 2 role, embody the
opportunities available for his
children. Sellu said he heard
about Moore from his wife, who is
a U.S. citizen and able to vote.
Moore’s background and faith
were selling points for the family.
“It’s good that we’re seeing
immigrants elevated,” said Sellu,
who lives in Langley Park, a
neighborhood brimming with
Spanish speakers, and works with
a blend of Americans and immi-
grants from countries that span
Nigeria to Ukraine.
factors may have existed,” the
letter continued, “the grounding
was avoidable had you followed
the ordinary practice of mari-
ners, chosen to focus on the
navigational task at hand, and
taken appropriate actions as ex-
pected of a prudent mariner.”
It doesn’t appear as if issues
related to cellphone usage have
been common among Maryland
pilots. A public records request
for disciplinary reports since
2012 that resulted from a pilot
using his or her mobile phone did
not yield results. “No responsive
records exist,” the Board of Pilots
wrote in a letter to the Sun.
— Baltimore Sun
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MARYLAND

Lawmakers seek to remake a health-care system failing vulnerable patients

Pandemic added to crisis,
especially for those with
behavioral conditions
BY J ENNA P ORTNOY
Lawmakers returned to An-
napolis last week determined to
scrutinize Maryland’s health sys-
tems for solutions to structural
issues the pandemic highlighted
and exacerbated for the state’s
most vulnerable residents.
Leaders in the House and
Senate are crafting two compre-
hensive bills addressing the
state’s public health and behav-
ioral health systems with study
commissions and proposals, in-
cluding federally qualified clin-
ics for mental illness and sub-
stance abuse treatment.
They will work with incoming
health secretary Laura Herrera
Scott, a physician and deputy
health secretary under former
governor Martin O’Malley (D),
who inherits an agency with
widespread vacancies and a
workforce exhausted after three
years on the front lines of the
pandemic.
The state’s hospitals were at or
near full capacity due to staffing
shortages as the legislative ses-
sion opened Wednesday, with
patients presenting sicker than
pre-pandemic levels and people
suffering from mental health cri-
ses boarding in emergency de-
partments while awaiting beds,
according to the Maryland Hos-
pital Association. In the first year
of the pandemic, the state had
the worst average emergency
department wait times in the
nation, data from the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
shows.
While lawmakers made piece-
meal changes — expanding test-
ing and vaccine access and re-
quiring implicit bias training for
health-care workers — through-
out the pandemic, officials say
the mounting challenges magni-
fied by the coronavirus demand a
comprehensive response.
They want to restore staffing
levels to full capacity, fully fund
programs proved to help pa-
tients, and build community ser-
vices to keep people out of hospi-
tals and the criminal justice
system. The bills, which could be
Del. Aaron Kaufman (D-Montgomery), seated at upper right, poses for photos before being sworn in at the Maryland State House on
Jan. 11. Two bills being drafted in the state legislature would address the shortcomings of the behavioral and public health systems.
“If you had diabetes,
we wouldn’t say
the best way to manage
your diabetes is to go
to the emergency
department. That’s
never the approach
we would advocate
or think is good except
for behavioral health.”
Lori Doyle, director of public policy
for the Community Behavioral Health
Association of Maryland, speaking
about helping people
get health-care services before their
condition deteriorates
portation, lack of access to edu-
cation and inadequate housing.
Research shows that in addi-
tion to considering conditions in
which people are born, grow,
live, work and age, public health
officials should consider the role
that structural inequities — such
as racism, classism and gender
oppression — play in health
outcomes.
Del. Ariana B. Kelly (D-Mont-
gomery) is spearheading the
public health bill, which would
create a commission to examine
the state’s response to the pan-
demic and overdose deaths as
well as racial and ethnic dispari-
ties in maternal mortality and
birth outcomes.
The cost will be calculated
when the bills are introduced.
Lawmakers say the investment
will be significant. They aim to
draw on the state’s $2.5 billion
surplus and $3 billion “rainy
day” savings account, although
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out the resources to seek help
even if the state had enough
providers.
“If we don’t do it now, are we
ever going to do it?” said Del.
David Moon (D-Montgomery),
who will shepherd the behavior-
al health bill in the house. “The
need right now is so great and
with the funds there at the
moment it would be a real shame
if we don’t put a down payment
on part of this build-out.”
In Maryland, 781,000 adults —
or 19 times the population of
Annapolis — have a mental
health condition, according to
data compiled by the state chap-
ter of the National Alliance on
Mental Illness. Almost 40 per-
cent of Maryland adults reported
symptoms of anxiety or depres-
sion in February 2021, one year
into the pandemic, and about a
third were unable to access coun-
seling or therapy, NAMI says.
Moon said that after eight
“That sounds simple but it’s
remarkable how far we are from
it,” he said.
Mental health advocates are
pressing lawmakers to beef up
community services through
what are known as certified com-
munity behavioral health clinics,
which provide outpatient mental
health and substance abuse dis-
order treatment, case manage-
ment and primary health screen-
ing. CCBHCs are funded by the
federal and state governments.
Lori Doyle, director of public
policy for the Community Behav-
ioral Health Association of Mary-
land, said the goal is to get
people outpatient therapy and
services before their condition
deteriorates to the point where
they end up in a hospital emer-
gency room or jail. Without ac-
cessible treatment, patients
must rely on inadequate and
expensive inpatient psychiatric
hospitals, which were set up for
long-term care — not a rotating
load of patients who, once stabi-
lized, do well with outpatient
treatment.
“If you had diabetes, we
wouldn’t say the best way to
manage your diabetes is to go to
the emergency department,” she
said. “That’s never the approach
we would advocate or think is
good except for behavioral
health.”
The Hogan administration
last year missed a deadline for
Maryland to pilot CCBHCs, de-
spite a letter from most of the
state’s congressional delegation.
Many states have had success
with such clinics, Doyle said. In
New York, monthly behavioral
health emergency department
costs dropped 26 percent; inpa-
tient hospitalizations among
adult clients Oklahoma psychiat-
ric hospitals dropped 93 percent;
and in Missouri emergency de-
partment visits fell by 36 percent
after three years, according to
data compiled by the nonprofit
National Council for Mental
Wellbeing.
As it stands, most behavioral
health clinics lose money be-
cause the reimbursement rate
doesn’t cover the cost of services,
making it difficult for even peo-
ple with private insurance to
locate services.
That’s the case for Corner-
stone Montgomery, a certified
community behavioral health
clinic that sees 3,000 clients
annually in Montgomery County
and is preparing to add 500 more
across St. Mary’s, Calvert and
Charles counties, said CEO Cari
Guthrie.
The center has access to some
federal grant money as a result of
the clinic designation and saw
hospitalizations among its pa-
tients decline as services expand-
ed, Guthrie said — down 59
percent in 2021 from a compara-
ble three-month period in 2018.
“The results speak for them-
selves across the country,” she
said of the model lawmakers are
considering.

introduced in the next week or
two, call for a four-year behavior-
al health study and specific pro-
posals as well as a two-year
public health study, lawmakers
said.
Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk (D-
Prince George’s), chair of the
House Health and Government
Operations Committee, said the
legislation will address struc-
tures but also social determi-
nants of health, including finan-
cial instability, unreliable trans-
VIRGINIA
Mass fury at Newport News school board meeting
BY L AURA M ECKLER
AND J IM M ORRISON
Dozens of teachers and parents
unleashed fury, fear and frustra-
tion on the Newport News school
Teachers, parents vent
frustrations with district
after Richneck shooting
Gov.-elect Wes Moore (D) has
cautioned that the state cannot
afford the more than $2 billion in
requests already made to the
state government.
“You either pay now or you pay
later, and how do you pay? You
pay when people commit suicide,
when families are not function-
ing, someone is miserable,” Peña-
Melnyk said in an interview.
The pandemic highlighted
and exacerbated the mental
health crisis, leaving many with-
priorities and response to the vio-
lence. So many people wanted to
speak publicly that after repeated-
ly extending the 30-minute public
comment period, the school board
postponed its other business en-
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board Tuesday evening, saying
systemic problems throughout
the district created the climate in
which, police said, a 6-year-old
boy shot his teacher.
In something of a mass cathar-
sis, speakers called for the super-
intendent to be fired, and many
said his plan to install metal detec-
“We demand that our kids and
teachers come home safe every
day.”
The crowd of at least a couple
hundred people overflowed into
three additional rooms for a ses-
sion that stretched past three
tirely and devoted the evening to
comments.
At one dramatic moment, a par-
ent of a child in the alleged shoot-
er’s classroom came to the lectern
and struggled to compose her
emotions before speaking. In re-
sponse, the chairman of the school
board, Lisa R. Surles-Law, stepped
learning environment.
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schools but that they were unused.
But more fundamentally, a se-

tors at schools in response to the
recent shooting was entirely inad-
equate. Some practically
screamed their comments to the
lectern, and others were in tears.
hours. School board members lis-
tened without responding to the
substance of any of the public
comments.
Tuesday’s school board meeting
down from the dais and stood
beside her as she recounted how
frightening the shooting was for
her daughter, who the parent said
had been bullied by students in
Try
ries of speakers said metal detec-
tors are not enough to address the
district’s underlying problems.
“Metal detectors in every build-
ing is a nice start, but the most

Many said discipline at district
schools had deteriorated, result-
ing in unsafe classrooms, and they
noted that the shooting at Rich-
neck Elementary School was the
was the first opportunity for pub-
lic venting since the shooting of
first-grade teacher Abigail Zwer-
ner on Jan. 6. Police said her 6-
year-old student fired a single
the class.
“She’s terrified because the per-
son who was advocating for her
got hurt. She got hurt,” she said.
The shooting was the district’s
new
effective solution is for staff and
teachers to be listened to and sup-
ported when they report danger-
ous behaviors and threats,” said
James Graves, president of the

third in the district since fall 2021.
Several teachers said they were
not supported when facing vio-
lence in the classroom or even
attacks by students. And speakers
repeatedly charged that the dis-
trict cared more about keeping its
official discipline statistics low
than properly handling students
who act out.
“Board members, you have lost
your way, and you have lost our
confidence,” said Colleen Rent-
hrope, who said she had two chil-
dren in the district who are terri-
fied during active shooter drills
and who are forced to attend
school where there is no real disci-
pline of students who misbehave.
“I personally demand that the
tears of all the students scared to
go through the day in the system
you are charged with protecting
will haunt you until you make this
right,” she said, her voice rising.
round as Zwerner was in the mid-
dle of a lesson. The bullet struck
her hand and chest, and she was
rushed to the hospital, while the
boy was taken into custody. A mo-
tive remains under investigation.
The school has been closed since
the shooting, and no timeline was
given for reopening.
Newport News schools superin-
tendent George Parker III has said
school officials were told the boy
might have a gun. They searched
his backpack the same day as the
shooting but didn’t find the weap-
on, he said. Since then, questions
have been raised about why the
school had not notified law en-
forcement after they received a
report that a student might have a
gun on campus.
On Tuesday night, the ques-
tions were far broader, as current
and former district employees and
parents questioned the district’s
third in a short span. In Septem-
ber 2021, a 15-year-old fired shots
in the hallway of Heritage High
School during a lunchtime fight,
earning him a 10-year prison sen-
tence.
Later that fall, an 18-year-old
Warwick High School student fa-
tally shot a 17-year-old Woodside
High student after a basketball
game.
In response to this month’s inci-
dent, the superintendent had an-
nounced that the district would
install metal detectors in every
school building, and he promised
to solicit ideas from teachers for
making schools safer and to re-
view student discipline records.
But in a message to school staff
earlier Tuesday, Parker also said
the district had listened to teach-
ers “regarding the challenges of
student behavior.”
He said a survey conducted last
foods
Newport News Education Associ-
ation.
Several speakers said students
who act out, disrespect teachers
and get into fights suffer no conse-
quences.
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quences find their way back to Search our database of tested
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And Nicole Cooke, a school li-
brarian who was districtwide
teacher of the year in 2022, said
teachers are not respected in New-
port News schools. She said she
served on an advisory committee
and was repeatedly disrespected
by the superintendent.
“We are not listened to,” she
said. “We feel as though we do not
matter.”
Justin Jouvenal and Hannah
Natanson contributed to this report.
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ART MCNALLY, 97
NFL o∞ciating chief was called ‘father of instant replay’
BY B RIAN M URPHY
In the fourth quarter of a pre-
season National Football League
game on Aug. 18, 1985, a wide
receiver for the San Francisco
49ers leaped at midfield to grab a
pass. The ball came loose, and the
Denver Broncos recovered. A
fumble, the official ruled.
Maybe not, thought Art McNal-
ly, the head of league officiating.
He had persuaded the NFL to test
out video reviews of calls on the
field during the preseason. So far,
all the judgments on the field had
stood up to challenges for video
scrutiny.
This time, Mr. McNally was not
sure. He quickly checked the vid-
eotape. It showed that the 49ers’
Jerry Rice had dropped the ball
before his feet hit the turf. No
fumble, he ruled.
The moment in Denver’s 20-13
victory was the league’s first
video-overturned call — and un-
derscored the wide-ranging influ-
ence Mr. McNally wielded over
football for decades as he expand-
ed the scope of officiating and led
rule changes that helped modern-
ize the game into a more pass-fo-
cused, higher-scoring style.
“He’s the father of modern offi-
ciating,” said Bill Polian, a mem-
ber of the selection committee for
the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
where Mr. McNally was inducted
in 2022 as the first on-field official
bestowed the honor. Mr. McNally
died Jan. 1 at age 97 at a hospital
in Newtown, Pa., the Hall of Fame
announced. No cause was given.
Mr. McNally joined pro football
in 1959 as a field judge, stationed
behind the defense. The league
“was short at the position, and I
decided to go for it,” Mr. McNally
told the Bucks County Courier
Times last year.
He rose to other officiating du-
ties, including crew chief. His last
game in the NFL “zebra stripes”
was Dec. 23, 1967, in a Green Bay
Packers 28-7 playoff victory over
the Los Angeles Rams.
Mr. McNally was taking off his
field shoes when Packers Coach
Vince Lombardi put his hand on
his shoulder for a goodbye, re-
counted Mr. McNally’s son-in-law,
Brian O’Hara. “Hey, Art,” Lombar-
di said, according to O’Hara. “I
FAY WELDON, 91
Acerbic British novelist
and screenwriter
BY H ARRISON S MITH
Fay Weldon, a mischievous and
prolific British author who ex-
plored women’s lives and rela-
tionships in novels such as “The
Life and Loves of a She-Devil,”
challenging assumptions about
gender, love and domesticity
while acquiring a reputation as
both a feminist and an anti-femi-
nist, died Jan. 4 at a nursing home
in Northampton, England. She
was 91.
Her son Dan confirmed the
death. Ms. Weldon “had a number
of strokes,” he said in an email,
but was still working until her
death, “writing poems in her head
and dictating slowly.”
A highly public author with an
easy laugh and a distinctive blond
bob, Ms. Weldon wrote more than
30 novels as well as short-story
collections, children’s books, and
television, radio and stage plays.
Her work was filled with acerbic
humor, sexual satire and farcical
scenarios, distinguished by an
understated literary style that she
described as “completely practi-
cal and always precise.”
Much of it was also semi-au-
tobiographical — inspired, she
said, by her “mildly scandalous”
early life, which included a no-
madic upbringing in New Zea-
land and England, single mother-
hood at age 22, and a marriage to
a high school headmaster who,
according to Ms. Weldon, pimped
her out to friends and advised her
to get a job as an escort.
At age 35, she “stopped living
and started writing instead, as a
serious person,” as she put in her
2002 autobiography “Auto Da
Fay.” While sitting on the stairs so
she could keep an eye on her
young children (she had four sons
in all, her last at age 47), she wrote
screenplays for shows including
“Upstairs, Downstairs,” an ac-
claimed period drama about Eng-
lish servants and their masters,
winning a Writers’ Guild of Great
Britain award for writing the 1971
pilot.
She also began publishing wry
novels and family dramas, defy-
ing literary convention by popu-
NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, right, and Art McNally, the head of NFL officiating, discuss a photo of a controversial play involving a
disallowed touchdown for the Houston Oilers in their loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game in January 1980.
hear you’re going to the league
offices.”
In New York, Mr. McNally insti-
tuted an extensive system of eval-
uating the officiating each week,
including phone calls to the offi-
cials, written reports and film
reviews. Mr. McNally also advo-
cated rule changes that opened
up the game for the offense.
Part of the new look supported
by McNally included limiting a
defender’s contact with pass re-
ceivers after five yards and allow-
ing offensive linemen to use their
arms and hands to block pass
rushers.
Mr. McNally’s biggest stamp on
the game, however, was embrac-
ing technology to give him the
nickname “father of instant re-
lating her books with protago-
nists who were women rather
than men, plump rather than
petite. She later recalled that
male writers were furious that
she dared to write about issues
like dieting and marriage, telling
the Daily Mail: “Men would walk
out of rooms when I walked in
because they were so angry and
upset that women were no longer
willing to iron men’s shirts.”
Soon her books were climbing
bestseller lists in Britain and re-
ceiving praise on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Her novel “Praxis” (1978),
about the shifting mind-set of a
woman with a rickety childhood,
two unsuccessful marriages, a ca-
reer as a prostitute and an inces-
tuous relationship, was shortlist-
ed for the Booker Prize, Britain’s
most prestigious literary award.
Ms. Weldon was vaulted to great-
er fame with her novel “The Life
and Loves of a She-Devil” (1983),
about a lantern-jawed woman
named Ruth who, driven by envy
and a desire for revenge, under-
goes plastic surgery to look like
her husband’s lover.
“It affords a scintillating,
mind-boggling, vicarious thrill
for any reader who has ever fanta-
sized dishing out retribution for
one wrong or another,” New York
Times reviewer Rosalyn Drexler
wrote. The book was adapted into
a prizewinning BBC miniseries
and a much-maligned Hollywood
movie, “She-Devil” (1989), star-
ring Meryl Streep and Roseanne
Barr. Decades later, Guardian
journalist Claire Armistead said
the novel “licensed a generation
of second-wave feminists to own
their inner demon.”
“It seemed to me when I wrote
[the novel] that women were so
much in the habit of being good,”
Ms. Weldon told the Guardian, “it
would do nobody any harm if they
learned to be a little bad — that is
to say, burn down their houses,
give away their children, put their
husband in prison, steal his mon-
ey and turn themselves into their
husband’s mistress.”
Yet Ms. Weldon also came to
believe that the feminist move-
EZ RE
obituaries
play.”
McNally led experiments with
the video review in the 1970s. In a
1976 “Monday Night Football”
game between the Buffalo Bills
and the Dallas Cowboys, Mr. Mc-
Nally used a stopwatch to check
the time between a call on the
field and how quickly a video
review could be assessed. Too
long, he decided.
The NFL tested instant-replay
review again during the 1978 pre-
season. There were not enough
cameras in place to make it effec-
tive.
“Everybody agreed to forget
about it,” Mr. McNally said.
He did not. After the 1985 pre-
season tests, the team owners
voted 23-4-1 to adopt video review
Fay Weldon, pictured in 2007, wrote more than 30 novels, including 1983’s “The Life and Loves of a
She-Devil.” She had a reputation as both a feminist and an anti-feminist.
ment had gone astray, with wom-
en too often claiming the role of
victim. To the horror of many
longtime allies, she told a radio
interviewer in 1998 that rape
“isn’t the worst thing that can
happen to a woman,” arguing that
society “glamorizes” sexual as-
sault by viewing it as especially
horrific. She later questioned the
significance of the pay gap be-
tween men and women, declared
that men had become casualties
of the gender war, and appeared
to be skeptical of transgender
rights, saying that because “wom-
en have it better than men,” some
men were “fighting back by be-
coming women themselves.”
Still, she continued to cham-
pion women’s liberation, and it
was often difficult to tell when
she was expressing her genuine
beliefs or simply trying to pro-
voke and entertain. Laughing
through interviews, she acknowl-
edged fabricating stories and de-
tails about her life to liven up the
conversation, and estimated that
“about 60 percent” of what she
told journalists was true. In some
cases, it seemed that Ms. Weldon
herself was unsure of what had
really happened; at the very least,
she was struggling to make sense
of it.
“I long for a day of judgment
for the upcoming season. The
video officials at a stadium used
two nine-inch television moni-
tors and two videocassette re-
corders capable of immediate re-
play. Reviews were set for a maxi-
mum of two minutes.
There were some glaring grow-
ing pains. During an October
1986 game between the Kansas
City Chiefs and the Los Angeles
Raiders, a video review over-
turned a touchdown call on the
field for the Raiders. But the on-
field official misheard the video
booth message over a walkie-talk-
ie. The touchdown stood and the
Raiders won, 24-17.
“I don’t like it,” Minnesota Vi-
kings Coach Jerry Burns said af-
ter a game that season. “It makes
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when the plot lines of our lives
will be neatly tied, and all puzzles
explained, and the meaning of
events made clear,” she wrote at
the opening of her autobiogra-
phy. “We take to fiction, I sup-
pose, because no such thing is
going to happen, and at least on
the printed page we can observe
beginnings, middles and ends,
and can find where morality re-
sides.”
The younger of two girls, she
was born Franklin Birkinshaw in
Alvechurch, Worcestershire, on
Sept. 22, 1931. Her father, Frank,
was a physician who had worked
as a driver for British army officer
T.E. Lawrence in the Middle East.
Her mother, the former Margaret
Jepson, was herself a novelist and
the daughter of another author,
Edgar Jepson, whose literary ac-
quaintances included T.S. Eliot
and Ezra Pound.
Ms. Weldon’s parents had
moved to New Zealand shortly
before her birth, and she was
raised there with her older sister,
Jane, as their parents’ marriage
collapsed. Her mother went on to
raise the children alone, support-
ing the family by writing serial-
ized romance and adventure nov-
els. After World War II, they
returned to Britain, where Ms.
Weldon earned a scholarship to a
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the crowd hostile.”
In 1986, video reviews were
used 374 times, about 1.6 times
per game, with 38 on-field calls
reversed, the NFL said.
“We’ve got some bugs that
came up,” Mr. McNally said, “but,
personally, our people feel that
this is excellent for the game.”
The system lasted six years.
The owners voted to abandon
video review for the 1992 season,
saying that it slowed the game
and that the on-field officiating
was sufficient.
Overall, officials reviewed
2,967 plays between 1986 and
1991, reversing 12.6 percent of the
on-field calls. Video review re-
turned in 1999.
Mr. McNally stepped down as
London girls school and studied
at the University of St Andrews in
Scotland.
After stints as a waitress and
hospital orderly, she joined the
British Foreign Office, where she
wrote propaganda leaflets that
were airdropped on Poland dur-
ing the Cold War. In her early 20s,
she had a son, Nick, from a
relationship with Colyn Davies, a
musician and nightclub doorman
whom she left for a brief marriage
to Ronald Bateman, a headmas-
ter who was 25 years her senior
and, according to Ms. Weldon,
simply wanted a child and wife
for his résumé.
She later wrote about the mar-
riage in the third person, distanc-
ing herself from the relationship
in her autobiography.
“What is so odd is that until
you wrote about the experience,
you didn’t really see it,” she told
the Guardian, referring to herself
in the second person. “The ex-
traordinariness of it escaped you
because it always does when
you’re living through something.
It’s only afterwards, when you
look at little patches of your life,
that you realize that it was abso-
lutely insane.”
By the late 1950s, Ms. Weldon
was working as a copywriter for
an advertising firm, helping to
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head of officiating in March 1991,
moving to the NFL-run World
League as the officiating supervi-
sor, then as an assistant supervi-
sor of officiating and a trainer
until 2015.
“Do the job,” Mr. McNally said
in 2012 in advice to officials.
“Hopefully nobody knows you’re
around. Make the proper calls the
way they should be with a heavy
dose of common sense. You’re an
NFL official. You’re paid to be
perfect.”
$5 a game
Arthur Ignatius McNally was
born on July 1, 1925, in Philadel-
phia, where his father was a fire-
fighter and his mother stayed at
home caring for five children. Mr.
McNally joined the Marine Corps
after graduating from high school
in 1942 and served in the Pacific
and in Japan during the postwar
occupation.
In the Marines, he got his first
taste of officiating, working pick-
up football games. After return-
ing to the United States, he stud-
ied at Temple University, graduat-
ing in 1950 with a degree in
education. He told the Philadel-
phia Inquirer that his first paid
officiating job was in October
1946, earning $5 for a “sandlot”
football game.
In the 1950s, he was a teacher
and coach at Central High School
in Philadelphia while moonlight-
ing as an official at college foot-
ball games and some NBA games.
“He never wore anyone’s jer-
sey,” O’Hara said. “He was no-
body’s fan.”
Mr. McNally is survived by his
wife of 36 years, Sharon McNally;
two sons and a daughter from his
first marriage, to the former Rita
Krout, who died in 1981; and eight
grandchildren.
The NFL rules cover thousands
of scenarios, but not everything.
Mr. McNally heard complaints
from Miami Dolphins Coach Don
Shula in December 1982 after the
host New England Patriots used a
small snowplow during a timeout
to clear a path for kicker John
Smith, who made a 33-yard field
goal in a 3-0 win.
“There’s nothing in the rule
book to cover it,” Mr. McNally
said. The victory stood.
create the egg-industry slogan
“Go to work on an egg,” which
endured for years, and suggesting
the line “Vodka gets you drunker
quicker” for a liquor campaign,
which her bosses rejected.
Her experience writing con-
cise, snappy ad copy came in
handy when she launched her
literary career in the early 1960s,
shortly after marrying her second
husband, Ron Weldon, a musi-
cian turned antiques dealer. She
adapted one of her TV scripts into
her debut novel, “The Fat Wom-
an’s Joke” (1967), and later
worked on screen projects includ-
ing a BBC miniseries adaptation
of “Pride and Prejudice” (1980).
After three decades of mar-
riage, Ms. Weldon’s husband left
her for his “astrological thera-
pist.” He died in 1994, the day his
divorce to Ms. Weldon was final-
ized. Within a year, she married
Nick Fox, a poet and bookseller
who became her manager. They
settled in a 19th-century stone
house in Dorset, where Ms. Wel-
don continued to write, publish-
ing books including “Chalcot
Crescent” (2009), a dystopian
novel about the future of capital-
ism, and “Death of a She Devil”
(2017), the sequel to her earlier
hit.
In 2020, she announced that
she was getting a divorce.
Survivors include her son
Nick; two sons from her second
marriage, Dan and Sam; a step-
daughter, Karen; 12 grandchil-
dren; and five great-grandchil-
dren. Another son from her sec-
ond marriage, Tom, died in 2019.
Ms. Weldon was named a Com-
mander of the Order of the British
Empire in 2001 for services to
literature, shortly after she
gained notoriety in the literary
world for her novel “The Bulgari
Connection.” The book was spon-
sored by the jewelry company
Bulgari, which paid for Ms. Wel-
don to reference its products. She
had worried that the tie-in would
sully her literary reputation, she
told the Times, but ultimately
decided it wouldn’t make a differ-
ence: “They never give me the
Booker Prize anyway.”
“My sentences are too short,
and if you want to win prizes, and
be taken seriously as a literary
writer, you have to take out all the
jokes,” she later told the Guard-
ian. “I’ve judged enough prizes in
my time to know the most boring
book wins. And that’s not the
book you want to write.”
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obituaries
LINCOLN ALMOND, 86
Two-term R.I. governor was
also a longtime U.S. attorney
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Lincoln Almond, a former two-
term Republican governor of
Rhode Island and longtime U.S.
attorney in the state, died Jan. 2 at
86.
The death
was reported in
an obituary
posted on the
website of the
Avery-Storti Fu-
neral Home and
Crematory in
Mr. Almond Wakefield, R.I.
No other details
about the death were provided.
As governor from 1995 until
2003, Mr. Almond expanded
health-care and day-care opportu-
nities for children, boosted fund-
ing to update neglected state col-
lege campuses, and overhauled
the state Department of Economic
Development to help diversify the
economy and bring tens of thou-
sands of well-paying jobs to the
state.
He also successfully fought ef-
forts to bring casinos and other
expanded gambling opportunities
to the state.
Lincoln Carter Almond was
Former Arizona state senator Russell Pearce at the U.S. Supreme
Court after its hearing on the state’s anti-immigration law in 2012.
RUSSELL PEARCE, 75
Ariz. lawmaker was behind
‘show me your papers’ law
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Russell Pearce, a Republican
lawmaker in Arizona who was the
driving force behind the state’s
landmark 2010 immigration leg-
islation known as the “show me
your papers” law and other anti-
immigrant measures, died Jan. 5
in Mesa, Ariz. He was 75.
His family announced the
death but did not cite a specific
cause.
Mr. Pearce rose to brief nation-
al prominence more than a dec-
ade ago while advocating for
tougher border policies for Ari-
zona, one of the busiest hubs for
illegal immigration in the United
States. He was the lead sponsor of
S.B. 1070, which required law en-
forcement officers to inquire
about suspects’ immigration sta-
tus if they had reason to believe
they were in the United States
illegally.
It was the toughest anti-immi-
gration law in the nation and
prompted calls for organizations
to cancel conventions in Phoenix,
a huge source of income for Ari-
zona’s largest city. It was signed
into law by Gov. Jan Brewer (R).
Activists in the city’s rapidly
growing Latino community criti-
cized Mr. Pearce for portraying
immigrants as lawbreakers. The
controversy over the law ulti-
mately fueled the creation of local
civil rights groups that registered
growing numbers of Hispanic
U.S. citizens to vote and become
involved in their neighborhoods.
But S.B. 1070 also tapped into
the fears and frustrations of oth-
ers about the porous southern
border and the possible effects
immigration could have on their
lives in metro Phoenix.
Legal challenges were filed
over S.B. 1070’s constitutionality
and its compliance with civil
rights law, with detractors argu-
ing that the law encouraged the
racial profiling of Latinos. The
U.S. Supreme Court upheld the
provision requiring immigration
status checks during law enforce-
ment stops but struck down three
other provisions.
Mr. Pearce earlier backed other
anti-immigration measures, in-
cluding a voter-approved law that
denied bail to immigrants who
were in the United States illegally
and charged with a range of felo-
nies that included shoplifting, ag-
gravated identity theft, sexual as-
sault and murder. That 2006 law
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born in Pawtucket, R.I., on June
16, 1936, and raised in Central
Falls, R.I. He graduated from the
University of Rhode Island in 1959
and from Boston University’s law
school in 1961.
He served as U.S. attorney for
more than 20 years, from 1969
until 1978 and from 1981 until
1993. He made a name for himself
with a string of political indict-
ments and drug convictions that
included busting an extensive
money-laundering ring run for
Colombian drug lords.
Mr. Almond’s political career
got off to a modest start when he
was appointed in 1963 to fill an
unexpired two-year term as the
administrator of the town of Lin-
coln. He failed in initial bids for
the U.S. House in 1968 and for
governor in 1978.
He was the long shot who paid
off in the 1994 gubernatorial cam-
paign, besting a sitting congress-
man, Rep. Ron Machtley, in the
GOP primary. He defeated Demo-
cratic state Sen. Myrth York in the
general election.
Survivors include his wife of 64
years, the former Marilyn John-
son, as well as two children and
five grandchildren.
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was later struck down by an 11-
member panel of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 9th Circuit for
violating due process rights by
imposing punishment before tri-
al.
Another law punished employ-
ers who hired workers who were
in the United States illegally,
drawing protests from business
owners and prompting droves of
immigrants to flee to other states
or return to their home countries.
“Why in the world do [immi-
grants in the U.S. illegally] think
they have a right to break the
law?” Mr. Pearce told the Associ-
ated Press in 2008. “And we are
the bad guys for insisting that the
law be enforced? The public
doesn’t agree with that.”
Amid changing demographics
in Arizona, fierce community op-
position to Mr. Pearce’s measures
sparked a November 2011 recall
election that ousted him from the
state Senate, where he served as
president. The year after he be-
came the first person ever re-
called from the Arizona legisla-
ture, Mr. Pearce lost a comeback
bid in the Republican primary for
a state Senate seat.
Russell Keith Pearce was born
in Mesa on June 23, 1947, in what
the Los Angeles Times reported
was a “troubled home with a se-
verely alcoholic father.”
“In previous interviews,” the
Times reported, “Pearce has re-
called how he would come home
and find that concerned neigh-
bors had left groceries for the
impoverished family. But the food
was put to the side. His mother
would not accept charity.”
At some point, according to
news reports, he came under the
influence of far-right author and
public speaker W. Cleon Skousen.
A list of survivors was not im-
mediately available.
Before he was elected to the
Arizona House of Representatives
in 2000 and later the state Senate,
Mr. Pearce worked many years for
the Maricopa County sheriff ’s of-
fice, rising to become chief deputy
to then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who
was nationally known for his bru-
tal anti-immigration policies.
Mr. Pearce at one point even
claimed credit for Arpaio’s infa-
mous complex of jail tents.
Mr. Pearce later served as direc-
tor of the Arizona Motor Vehicle
Division and more recently
worked for the Maricopa County
treasurer’s office.
IN MEMORIAM
BRACKEN
JAMES ALOYSIUS BRACKEN
10/29/34 - 1/18/22
Always in our hearts
We miss you Big Jim!
Love, Judy, Steve, Dave, Matt
& Extended Family
CARTER
JEROME WESLEY CARTER “Rome”
February 7, 1978 - January 18, 1999
Today makes 24 years living without you
My forever Jerome
I love you my precious one
Mom
EDGERTON
AMY ELISABETH EDGERTON
JANUARY 18, 1970 - JULY 3, 1987
Look at the stars,
how they shine and glow.
Some of the stars died
a long time ago.
Still they shine
in the evening skies
For you see starlight,
like love, never dies.
GLASCOE
RUTH H. GLASCOE
1/18/30 - 10/26/02
Happy 93rd Birthday, Mother
Forever in our hearts,
Love, Carlton, Bryan and Vicky
KEATING
PHILIP M. KEATING
October 25, 1959 ~ January 18, 2011
Loved. Missed. Remembered. Always.
Erin and Kathleen,
Patrick and Caroline,
Family and Friends
DEATH NOTICE
ALEXANDER
RICHARD J. ALEXANDER “Dick”
Richard “Dick” Alexander passed away at
Holy Cross Hospice on December 20, 2022
at the age of 91. He died as gracefully as he
lived life, following a short illness and stroke.
Dick was preceded in death years earlier by
his beloved parents and brother; and by his
beloved wife Alice in 2020. He is survived by
his loving children Sue Reske (Jim) of Placi-
da, FL and Steve Alexander (Vicky) of Olney,
MD, and other dear friends and relatives.
After completing a Landscape Architecture
degree with the Syracuse University College
of Forestry, Dick served as a U.S. Army Nike
MENTON
ELLEN A. MENTON
Ellen A. Menton (née Chickory), a resident
of Annapolis and previously New Carrollton,
MD, died on Thursday, January 17, 2023.
She was born on June 7, 1934, in Queens,
NY, to the late Elizabeth Campbell and Jo-
seph Chickory. In 1956, Ellen’s friends fixed
her up on a blind date with Marty Menton,
a Navy man, who was stationed in Rhode
Island. The relationship was a big deal from
the start and they began seeing each oth-
er every couple of weeks when he came to
town. They were married in 1958 and had
a beautiful party at Fresh Meadows Inn in
Flushing, NY. After raising her five children,
Ellen went to work at the Washington Busi-
EZ RE
IN MEMORIAM
SCHWENZ
JASON C. SCHWENZ
DEPUTY FIRST CLASS
QUEEN ANNE COUNTY SHERIFF
January 18, 1973 - February 13, 2001
Killed in the line of duty.
Hold us tight in your arms.
Love, Mom and Mike
DEATH NOTICE
ADAMS
ELOISE PEYTON ADAMS
Born on June 24, 1926, Eloise Peyton Ad-
ams of Springfield, Virginia died on January
12, 2023. Mrs. Adams, a native of Georgia,
graduated from Cornelia High School in
Cornelia, GA in 1943. In 1944 she came
to Washington, DC to work for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation where she worked
as a typist, proofreader, and secretary for
over 10 years. She attended Strayer Col-
lege of Accounting and Law in Washington,
DC. Mrs. Adams worked as a real estate
agent for more than twenty years, retiring
in 1995 from Century 21, Old Town Asso-
ciates, Alexandria, VA. She was a member
of the First Baptist Church in Alexandria,
VA. Mrs. Adams wrote four books of poet-
ry and over 100 greeting card verses. She
also belonged to a DC-area Writer’s Club.
Eloise was married to Melrose Buster Ad-
ams for 70 years prior to his passing in
2020. The Adams’ lived in Alexandria and
Falls Church, VA before moving into inde-
pendent living at the Greenspring Senior
Living Community. Mrs. Adams moved to
the Aarondale Assisted Living Community
in 2020 and was a resident in the Inspiritas
unit there at the time of her death.
Eloise Adams was a wonderful mother,
grandmother, and great-grandmother. She
is survived by a son, Bruce Adams and his
wife Sandy of Springfield, VA and a daugh-
ter Lynn A. Rourke and her husband, Ed-
ward J. Rourke, Jr. of The Woodlands, TX.
She is survived by a grandson, Colin G.
Adams and his wife Michelle and by three
granddaughters: Erin O’Connell and her
husband Ryan, Kristin Rourke and her wife
Rachel Rotondi, and Kara Rourke. She is
also survived by four great-grandchildren,
with a fifth on the way: Jacob and Claire
Adams and Abby, and Mila.
Interment to take place at Mount Comfort
Cemetery on Thursday, January 19, 2023.
DRUMMING
VERNA BODDIE DRUMMING
Our beloved Verna B. Drumming passed
away on January 3, 2023. She is survived
by a host of family and friends. The viewing
will be at 10 a.m. and the funeral at 11:30
a.m., on Friday, January 20 at Mt. Sinai Bap-
tist Church, 1615 3rd Street NW, Washing-
ton, DC 20001. To live stream the service,
visit https://www.msbcdc.org/live-stream
HUNDLEY
CARL STEPHEN HUNDLEY JR.
Entered into eternal rest on Wednesday,
January 4, 2023. A native Washingtonian,
Carl was eduacted in DC private and pub-
lic schools. He is survived by his devoted
wife, Telesia Coates Hundley; niece, Blair B.
Hundley; nephews, Hakeem T. and Edmund
A. Hundley and a host of other relatives
and friends. Service will be held at 11 a.m.
on Friday, January 20, 2023 at Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th St. NW,
Washington, DC. Interment Lincoln Memo-
rial Cemetery.
www.mcguire-service.com
missile mechanic in Boston, MA, during the
Korean conflict. During this time, he became
reacquainted with Alice, whom he had first
met in grade school when they were brief-
ly neighbors in upstate New York. As they
were married, Alice worked as a medical
secretary and Dick completed a Master’s in
City Planning at Harvard on the G.I. Bill. After
working on environmental projects includ-
ing for the Charles River Basin and Garden
State Parkway, Dick brought his family to the
DC area where he worked for H.U.D. for 35+
years before retiring as a Director of Com-
munity Planning.
Dick always loved the great outdoors, hik-
ing, camping, and family trips to our Nation-
al Parks and other natural beauty out West,
in the Adirondacks, Bar Harbor, Bermuda, Ja-
maica, and England. He taught his children
how to identify different varieties of trees
and instilled a respect for nature and our
natural environment - including the impact
of global climate change on our flora/fauna
– based on years of accumulated wisdom
and expertise.
Dick and Alice spent the past several years
residing at Leisure World and then Bedford
Court in Silver Spring, MD, surrounded by
old and new friends. True to his personality,
Dick did not want a big fuss or funeral, how-
ever, any memorial donations sent to the
Sierra Club would certainly make him smile.
No services are being held.
ness Group on Health in 1978 and retired in
1993 as the Director of Administration. Ellen
was an active member of the Heritage Har-
bour Community, serving as Chairman of So-
cial Activities and President of the Women’s
Golf Association. She also enjoyed bridge,
gardening and reading. Ellen’s greatest pas-
sion though was spending time with her
children and grandchildren, and supporting
their academics and sports. In addition to
her parents, Ellen was preceded in death
by her loving husband of 64 years, Martin
D. Menton, Jr.; and two brothers, Thomas
and Joseph Chickory. She is survived by her
children, Marty Menton, III of Reno, NV, Eliz-
abeth Brown of Lewes, DE, Maureen Bossler
of Hagerstown, MD, Christopher J. Menton,
Sr. of Blythewood, SC and Kathleen Men-
ton of Annapolis; her grandchildren, Ellen
Valdez, Christopher Menton, Jr., and Martin
Menton, IV; two great-grandchildren; and a
sister, Sr. Elizabeth Chickory, O.P. Family and
friends are invited to Ellen’s life celebration
on Wednesday, January 18 from 5 to 7 p.m.
at Kalas Funeral Home and Crematory, 2973
Solomons Island Rd., Edgewater. Mass of
Christian Burial will be offered on Thursday,
January 19 at 9 a.m. at St. John Neumann
Catholic Church, 620 N. Bestgate Rd., An-
napolis, MD, with interment to follow in the
Maryland Veterans Cemetery in Crownsville,
MD. In lieu of flowers, contributions may
be made to Hospice of the Chesapeake, 90
Ritchie Hwy., Pasadena, MD 21122. Online
condolences may be left for the family at:
KalasFuneralHomes.com
DEATH NOTICE
RABB
CAROLYN E. ROBINSON RABB
February 8, 1939 - December 22, 2022
Survived by her three loving sons; two
brothers and one sister. Homegoing ser-
vice will be celebrated January 19, 2023,
10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at City of Praise Family
Ministry, 8501 Jericho City Drive, Landover,
MD 20785.
RAY
EILEEN RAY
Peacefully passed away on Friday, De-
cember 23, 2022. Eileen leaves to cherish
her memory her brother Arthur Ray (Tan-
ya); sister Raynetta Ray; one nephew, a
host of nieces, great-nieces, a great great
niece and nephew, other relatives, friends
and colleagues. On Saturday, January 21,
friends may visit with the family from 10
a.m., until time of memorial service at 11
a.m. at Liberty Baptist Church, 527 Ken-
tucky Avenue, SE. Interment private.
THOMAS
MARJRIE ELIZABETH THOMAS
On January 10, 2023, Marjorie Elizabeth
Thomas of Capitol Heights, MD, departed
this life to be with her Heavenly Father.
Loving wife of Alfred Thomas; devoted
Mother of Tonya (Thomas) Montgomery,
Leslie (Thomas) Hill and Sheila (Thomas)
Green; daughter of the late Horace E. and
Marjorie Hamlin. Also survived by a host of
relatives and friends. On Tuesday, January
24, 2023, the family will receive friends
at J.B. Jenkins Funeral Homes, Inc., 7474
Landover Road, Hyattsville, MD 20785. Visi-
tation begins at 12:30 p.m., funeral service
begins at 1:30 p.m.
THOMPSON
DIANE R. ADDISON THOMPSON
Peacefully passed away on December
24, 2022. Diane was born on November
23,1954 in Washington, DC at Walter Reed
Hospital to the late Donald and Barbara
Jean Addison. Diane attended D.C. and
Maryland public schools. She was the first
female to join Boulevard Heights Volunteer
Fire Department in Prince Georges County,
MD. Diane was also the first female Presi-
dent of the Progressive Fire Fighter Asso-
ciation of Washington, DC. Her Husband
Samuel Thompson preceded her in death.
She leaves to mourn her children Sean
Addison, Tia Irby, and Stephen Irby (Tanya);
four grandchildren, Delano, Sean Jr. Sanaya
and Aubrey; four sisters Debra Addison,
Donna Addison-Johnson (Gary) Denise
Addison (Michael), and Dewone Tuning
(Daryl). Diane is also survived by a host of
nieces, nephews, and friends. Services will
be held on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 1
p.m. at the VFW Post 9619, located at 6525
Suitland Road, Morningside, MD 20743.
WASHINGTON
RHONDA ROCHELLE WASHINGTON
On Monday, December 12, 2022, Rhon-
da departed this earthly life. Family and
friends will gather on Friday, January 20,
2023, 11 a.m., at Nativity Catholic Church,
6001 13th St. NW, Washington, DC 20011.
DEATH NOTICE
FISCHER
DAVID G. FISCHER
David G. Fischer, 78, of Silver Spring, MD
passed away peacefully on January 6, 2023
at his home of prostate cancer, which me-
diatized to the bones. Born in Granite City,
IL, his father’s railroad job moved the family
to Meridian, MS. Mr. Fischer graduated from
Meridian High School where his love of mu-
sic began in his high school band. He was
the Drum Major, Band President, student
conductor and first chair bassoonist.
He held an under graduate degree in busi-
FUNGER
MORTON FUNGER
Morton Funger, 92, of Potomac, MD died
peacefully in his sleep on Friday, January
6, 2023 , surrounded by his children who
adored him.
Morty was born June 19,1930 in Washing-
ton, DC to Betty and Moe Funger and grad-
uated from George Washington University.
Morty always said he knew a good thing
when he saw it. On a summer day when he
was 15, he met Norma Lee Cohen and that
was the beginning of their 70-year marriage.
It was a partnership that brought blessings
in many ways.
He was successful in Washington, DC real
estate development as a principal of Com-
munity Builders, OFC Company, Condur De-
velopment and Community Realty Company
Inc.
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DEATH NOTICE
WHITE
RICHARD DOUGLAS WHITE
We are sad to announce the passing of
Richard “Easter” White on December 24,
2022, after an extended illness. We will
truly miss him. Services will be on Fri-
day, January 20, at Hemingway Memorial
AME Church, 6330 Gateway Blvd., District
Heights, MD. Viewing: 9 a.m., Service at 11
a.m.
stricklandfuneralservices.com
IN MEMORIAM
LUCY
GLORIA BOWMAN LUCY
To our dear daughter and sister.
We love you, we really miss you.
God be with you until we meet again.
Mom, Lynda and Barbara
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ness from the University of Southern Mis-
sissippi and attended graduate school at
American University in Washington, DC.
He received his master’s degree in general
administration from the University of Mary-
land.
Mr. Fischer retired from the Montgomery
County Public Schools, Rockville, MD where
he held positions as the Associate Superin-
tendent for Support Services, Assistant to
the Superintendent of Schools, Staff Assis-
tant to the Board of Education, Procurement
Director and Director of School Operations.
Mr. Fischer is preceded in death by his par-
ents, Mary R. Zike Fischer and George N.
Fischer of Meridian, MS, and brother, Paul
Fischer of Eight Mile, AL. He is survived by
his loving husband, Frank A. Walker, Jr. of
Silver Spring; brother and sister-in-law, Mark
and Dale Fischer of Moore, SC and his two
nephews Andrew and Matthew of SC and
their families. In addition, he is survived
by his close friends, Carol Bergen, Mareta
Smith, Mary Helen Smith and Rick Wright of
Maryland.
Memorial contributions may be sent to
one’s favorite charity.
A memorial service will be held in the spring
of 2023.
Morty supported many charitable and phil-
anthropic organizations including: Trustee
Emeritus, George Washington University,
Board of Directors of Medstar Georgetown
University Hospital, Board of Directors
Smithsonian National Air and Space Muse-
um, Trustees Council of the National Gallery
of Art, President of the Apartment and Of-
fice Building Association, member of both
YPO and CEO, as well as many Jewish or-
ganizations.
Morty was an avid tennis player, art collec-
tor, world traveler and reluctant golfer, who
loved anything related to aviation. If you
were to ask him what he was most proud
of and what were his greatest treasures, he
would list his wife Norma Lee, who preced-
ed him in death, and his four children: Lydia
(Bill) McClain, Melanie (Paul) Nichols, Keith
(Mauri) Funger and the late W. Scott (Holly)
Funger. Those children showered him with
the joy of ten grandchildren: Zachary (Ali),
Spencer (Emily), Caitlin, Teddy, Haley, Sam,
Sawyer, Celeste, Nick and Amanda, and four
great grandchildren.
Morty was a humble, kind and gentle man,
known for his integrity.
He was dearly loved and will be greatly
missed.
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7482 Lee Hwy, Falls Church, VA.
Burial to follow - King David Cemetery
Celebration of Life at 1:30 p.m. at the Mc-
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Breezy, dry and warm Today Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday O FF I CI A L REC O RD
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not too windy, and perhaps low 60s

in the sunniest, warmest spots. Some
locations may see more cloud cover
at times, holding back temperatures
in the mid- to upper 50s. Fog is possible early, but
we see more sunshine with time. A couple of
midday west-northwesterly wind gusts near
25 mph are possible. Breezes are calm as clouds
57° 41 ° 51° 43 ° 52° 36 ° 47° 36 ° 47° 37 ° 50° 38 °

FEELS*: 55° FEELS: 43° FEELS: 45° FEELS: 44° FEELS: 40° FEELS: 46°
and light rain chances return after midnight, CHNCE PRECIP: 0% P: 90% P: 5% P: 5% P: 35% P: 55%
with low temperatures in the upper 30s to low WIND: W 7–14 mph W: S 7–14 mph W: WNW 15–25 mph W: WNW 7–14 mph W: SSE 7–14 mph W: NE 7–14 mph
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REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today.

National Dulles BWI
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Low 38° 1:00 a.m. 34° 1:00 a.m. 35° 12:27 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
52/39 Normal 44°/30° 42°/25° 43°/25°
51/37 Record high 72° 1943 70° 1990 68° 1913
Hagerstown Record low –5° 1982 –7° 1982 –7° 1982
Baltimore
52/39
56/39 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (National): this month: +8.6° yr. to date: +8.6°
54/39
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Washington Annapolis
37/34 57/41 52/40
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Charlottesville Ocean City

64/41 56/42
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Lexington
60/42
Richmond
62/43 Virginia Beach
63/46 National Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 45°
63/45 Past 24 hours 0.05" 0.08" Trace
Total this month 0.47" 0.46" 0.34"
Kitty Hawk
60/47
Normal 1.59" 1.61" 1.70"
OCEAN: 46° Total this year 0.47" 0.46" 0.34"
Normal 1.59" 1.61" 1.70"
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Grass Low Dominant cause: Particulates Snow, season total Trace Trace Trace
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Weeds Low UV: Low Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 2 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 7:24 a.m. 5:13 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, partly sunny. High 46 to 50. Winds west Moon 4:13 a.m. 1:38 p.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Jan 21 Jan 28 Feb 5 Feb 13
20–30 mph. Tonight, cloudy, showers around. Low 36 to Yesterday's National World
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Venus 8:38 a.m. 6:55 p.m.
46. Winds south–southwest 10–20 mph. Thursday, a couple High: Eagle Pass, TX 86° High: Augrabies Falls, South Africa 113° Mars 1:14 p.m. 4:13 a.m.
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of showers, a thunderstorm in central parts; some rain, a for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 8:50 a.m. 7:19 p.m.
thunderstorm elsewhere.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 33/27/sn 31/20/sn Oklahoma City 62/30/r 52/32/s WORLD Today Tomorrow Islamabad 62/40/c 62/40/c Rio de Janeiro 84/75/t 83/75/t
Atlantic beaches: Today, partly sunny. High 53 to 63. Detroit 41/35/c 48/33/r Omaha 32/25/sn 28/11/sf Addis Ababa 77/43/s 76/42/pc Istanbul 64/54/pc 64/48/pc Riyadh 63/42/pc 64/40/s
Winds west 7–14 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy, a shower Albany, NY 41/29/c 34/32/sn El Paso 52/31/s 53/34/pc Orlando 77/55/pc 84/64/pc Amsterdam 42/38/pc 41/31/sn Jerusalem 60/44/s 62/43/s Rome 55/47/r 53/37/r
late. Low 40 to 45. Winds north–northeast 4–8 mph. Albuquerque 40/22/pc 39/26/s Fairbanks, AK –7/–12/pc 5/–3/pc Philadelphia 52/39/pc 47/42/r Athens 67/59/pc 65/57/pc Johannesburg 86/63/pc 83/60/t San Salvador 85/64/s 88/65/s
Thursday, a couple of showers. High 54 to 68. Winds south Anchorage 24/22/sn 29/26/sn Fargo, ND 16/14/c 21/13/pc Phoenix 59/39/pc 60/41/s Auckland 77/63/pc 79/63/c Kabul 39/22/c 39/19/c Santiago 89/58/s 85/56/s
8–16 mph. Friday, partly sunny. Atlanta 67/60/c 69/41/t Hartford, CT 47/33/pc 40/33/r Pittsburgh 42/37/c 55/34/t Baghdad 65/45/s 66/44/s Kingston, Jam. 84/73/s 85/72/pc Sarajevo 53/39/r 47/32/r
Austin 75/45/sh 68/42/pc Honolulu 81/68/pc 80/69/sh Portland, ME 43/27/c 39/29/pc Bangkok 90/69/c 89/70/pc Kolkata 77/57/pc 77/55/pc Seoul 37/19/s 42/22/pc
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, partly sunny. Wind west Baltimore 56/39/pc 48/43/r Houston 72/51/t 68/48/pc Portland, OR 47/35/r 46/33/c Beijing 41/16/pc 41/10/pc Kyiv 49/39/c 50/44/c Shanghai 47/32/s 53/35/c
4–8 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility unrestricted. • Lower Billings, MT 41/25/s 41/24/pc Indianapolis 44/42/r 49/31/c Providence, RI 50/34/pc 43/36/r Berlin 37/25/pc 36/27/c Lagos 88/78/pc 88/78/pc Singapore 87/76/sh 85/76/t
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny. Wind west Birmingham 70/62/c 68/39/t Jackson, MS 77/53/c 66/39/pc Raleigh, NC 67/52/pc 70/47/c Bogota 68/48/r 67/48/r Lima 76/68/c 76/68/c Stockholm 36/28/pc 32/25/c
6–12 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Lower Potomac; 1–3 feet on Bismarck, ND 17/9/c 20/16/c Jacksonville, FL 78/54/pc 80/55/pc Reno, NV 38/26/pc 35/19/sf Brussels 39/32/pc 40/29/sn Lisbon 54/45/sh 56/53/s Sydney 84/67/sh 70/64/r
Boise 40/29/pc 37/19/sf Kansas City, MO 43/32/r 41/23/sf Richmond 62/43/pc 64/48/r Buenos Aires 83/72/c 83/73/pc London 41/29/pc 41/28/pc Taipei City 60/56/c 64/58/c
the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be
Boston 49/35/pc 40/35/r Las Vegas 52/35/s 49/39/pc Sacramento 53/41/pc 52/35/pc Cairo 71/51/s 72/52/s Madrid 45/34/sh 45/41/pc Tehran 49/34/s 49/33/s
around 3.50 feet today, with no change of 3.50 Thursday. Flood Buffalo 39/33/sn 42/35/i Little Rock 68/44/t 54/35/s St. Louis 45/41/r 43/29/c Manila 86/77/r 87/77/r Tokyo 52/39/c 49/42/pc
Caracas 75/63/pc 74/62/pc
stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 39/26/sn 33/29/sn Los Angeles 60/43/s 58/42/c St. Thomas, VI 83/73/pc 83/73/s Copenhagen 39/32/pc 37/33/c Mexico City 79/43/pc 79/45/pc Toronto 40/30/c 37/32/i
Charleston, SC 72/58/pc 74/50/pc Louisville 54/52/r 62/36/pc Salt Lake City 35/24/c 36/22/sn Dakar 83/69/c 80/67/s Montreal 36/20/c 27/23/c Vienna 45/33/c 39/26/c
Charleston, WV 54/44/c 64/40/r Memphis 68/50/t 53/38/s San Diego 61/44/s 60/47/pc Dublin 40/28/pc 40/26/c Moscow 39/37/sf 40/36/sn Warsaw 36/32/sn 35/31/c
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 66/54/pc 67/44/t Miami 79/66/s 82/66/s San Francisco 58/46/pc 56/42/pc Edinburgh 39/28/pc 40/26/c Mumbai 87/67/s 85/66/s
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on ‘Can I spend the night?’
T
he boys had been hanging out all Saturday after-
noon, and Cicely Thrasher was planning to pick up
her 12-year-old son from his friend’s house at 7 p.m.
But as evening approached, the kids decided they
wanted a sleepover. The friend’s father texted Thrasher to
say it was fine with him if her son wanted to spend the
night.
When the message appeared on her phone, she felt a
surge of dread.
“I hate being a party pooper. I want my son to have deep
and meaningful friendships,” she says. But: “I also knew
that I would be setting a precedent if I allowed it to happen.
I wasn’t ready for that decision on such short notice.”
She immediately started Googling: Are sleepovers good
or bad for kids? and child development + sleepovers and
risks and benefits of sleepovers. She listened to child
psychologists on TikTok, scrolled through blog posts and
searched newspaper articles. She politely declined the
sleepover invitation and kept scouring the internet. “Most-
ly,” she says, “I was just trying to find a way to feel good
Once a rite of childhood, about my decision.”
sleepovers have gotten A sense of certainty proved elusive, but she did find that
she has plenty of company in feeling unsure about slee-
very complicated povers. Among parents who are skeptical of this particular
rite of childhood, one question — “Can I spend the night?”
— unleashes a slew of others: How well do we know the
BY C AITLIN G IBSON other parents? Are there guns in the house? What about
alcohol or drugs? What is the risk of coronavirus exposure?
Are there older siblings around? Will the kids be watching
YouTube or TikTok all night? Is it a girls-only or boys-only
gathering? (And what about kids who don’t adhere to
binary concepts of gender and sexuality?) What might
happen if they stay the night, and what might they miss if
they don’t?
There are families for whom slumber parties are out of
the question; in certain cultures, allowing your child to stay
overnight with someone outside the family is not an
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She shaped CNET forced to add corrections to AI-written stories
the view
of Black
America
BY D E N EEN L . B ROWN
In the late 1920s, Zora Neale
Hurston, who would become one
of the most influential writers of
the Harlem Renaissance, bought
a chrome-plated pistol and hit
the road in a “Chevrolet,” return-
ing south to her hometown of
Eatonville, Fla. She hoped to
document the culture of Black
men who swapped stories each
evening on the porch of Joe
Clark’s general store.
“I was glad when somebody
told me, ‘You may go and collect
Negro folklore,’” Hurston wrote
in “Mules and Men,” an “auto-
ethnographical” collection of
stories published in 1935. “In a
way, it would not be a new
experience for me. When I
pitched headforemost into the
world I landed in the crib of
negroism.”
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BY P AUL F ARHI
When internet sleuths discov-
ered last week that CNET had
quietly published dozens of fea-
ture articles generated entirely by
artificial intelligence, the popular
tech site acknowledged that it was
true — but described the move as
a mere experiment.
Now, though, in a scenario fa-
miliar to any sci-fi fan, the experi-
ment seems to have run amok:
The bots have betrayed the hu-
mans.
Specifically, it turns out the
bots are no better at journalism —
and perhaps a bit worse — than
their would-be human masters.
On Tuesday, CNET began ap-
pending lengthy correction notic-
es to some of its AI-generated
articles after Futurism, another
tech site, called out the stories for
containing some “very dumb er-
rors.”
An automated article about
compound interest, for example,
incorrectly said a $10,000 deposit
bearing 3 percent interest would
earn $10,300 after the first year.
Nope. Such a deposit would actu-
ally earn just $300.
More broadly, CNET and sister
publication Bankrate, which has
The editor of the tech website CNET said its use of AI to write some
articles is “an experiment” to assist reporters with their work.
also published bot-written sto-
ries, have now disclosed qualms
about the accuracy of the dozens
of automated articles they’ve pub-
lished since November.
New notices appended to sev-
eral other pieces of AI-generated
work state that “we are currently
reviewing this story for accuracy”
and that “if we find errors, we will
update and issue corrections.”
ISTOCK
Artificial intelligence has been
deployed to handle facial recogni-
tion, recommend movies and
auto-complete your typing. The
news that CNET had been using it
to generate entire stories, howev-
er, sent a ripple of anxiety through
the news media for its seeming
threat to journalists. The robot-
brained yet conversational Chat-
GPT can produce copy without
lunch or bathroom breaks and
never goes on strike.
Until last week, CNET had coy-
ly attributed its machine-written
stories to “CNET Money Staff.”
Only by clicking on the byline
would a reader learn that the
article was produced by “automa-
tion technology” — itself a euphe-
mism for AI.
The company came clean after
a sharp-eyed marketing executive
named Gael Breton called atten-
tion to the labels on Twitter. CNET
subsequently changed the bylines
to “CNET Money,” added some
clarification (“this article was as-
sisted by an AI engine”) and fur-
ther stipulated that the stories
were “thoroughly edited and fact-
checked by an editor on our edito-
rial staff.”
If that’s true, “then this is pri-
marily an editorial failure,” said
Hany Farid, a professor of electri-
cal engineering and computer sci-
ence at the University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley and an expert in
deepfake technologies.
“I wonder if the seemingly au-
thoritative AI voice led to the
editors lowering their guard,” he
added, “and [were] less careful
than they may have been with a
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Is this fine?
Meme’s
creator is
not so sure.
BY K ELSEY A BLES
In the beginning, he was just a
cartoon dog in a burning house,
apathetic about his dire predica-
ment. “This is fine,” he said, to no
one in particular.
But a decade after artist K.C.
Green drew the scene, that de-
featist dog lives on as a viral
meme — one that has, in a way,
spoken to all of us.
Stressed college kids, irked
congressmen, dispirited crypto
bros and disillusioned Christian
bloggers have all seen themselves
or their situations in the dog.
Wearing his tidy little hat and
staring at his sad little coffee cup,
he has become the internet’s pa-
tron saint of denial, a hero of
helpless resignation.
Green’s original comic, pub-
lished Jan. 9, 2013, extends for
four more panels that are usually
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Hurston collected the stories of Black Southerners in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s
HURSTON FROM C1
White anthropologists had
long struggled to document
Black folklore. Black people,
Hurston wrote, mostly distrust-
ed White scientists who sought
to study them and collect their
culture, songs and knowledge.
“We are a polite people and we do
not say to our questioner, ‘Get
out of here!’” Hurston wrote. “We
smile and tell him or her some-
thing that satisfies the white
person because, knowing so little
about us, he doesn’t know what
he is missing.”
Hurston’s groundbreaking
work as an anthropologist, col-
lecting the stories of her people
in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in the
South, is at the heart of the new
documentary “Zora Neale Hur-
ston: Claiming a Space,” which
focuses on Hurston’s work as one
of the country’s first Black wom-
en filmmakers and ethnogra-
phers. The film, directed by Tracy
Heather Strain, premiered Tues-
day on PBS (and is available for
stream at PBS.org and on the PBS
Video app) and follows Hurston’s
life as she challenged racist theo-
ries promoted by White anthro-
pologists in the 19th century.
“Through her trailblazing
work, Hurston would reclaim,
honor and celebrate black life on
its own terms — an idea that
remains radical today,” PBS said
in a statement.
“To understand Hurston as an
artist and writer, one must un-
derstand her as a social scien-
tist,” said Strain, who teaches
documentary history at Wesley-
an University. “Once Zora Neale
Hurston discovered anthropolo-
gy, she never really saw science
and art as being two separate
things. … She quite literally
Meme’s resignation sat
wrong after recent crises
THIS IS FINE FROM C1
not included in the meme, and it
ends with the dog incinerated.
Over the years, though, Green, 35,
has become more interested in
how the dog — a character from
his comic series “Gunshow,”
known as Question Hound —
might find a happier ending.
He appreciates new versions of
the comic that suggest “growing
from this anxiety, coming togeth-
er and not feeling totally help-
less,” he said a little after the
10th anniversary of the comic’s
publication.
In these iterations, his furry
friend has some measure of agen-
cy — suggesting we do, too.
In one version that circulated
after Joe Biden’s 2020 election
victory, a firefighter carries the
dog out of thick gray smoke. In a
lo-fi video game version, Ques-
tion Hound is armed with a fire
extinguisher. In yet another paro-
dy, he never gets himself into the
whole flaming fiasco in the first
place. Instead, he’s surrounded by
potted plants. “Fine,” indeed.
Green made the comic while he
was struggling to adjust to anti-
depressants, and over the past
decade it has been invoked to
capture such disparate woes as
BOOK WORLD
Chef’s ‘Fieldwork’ is a love letter to the land — and the bounty it o≠ers
BY M AKANA E YRE
Each spring, Iliana Regan
dreams of morels. When she
reaches to grasp them, however,
they vanish, and her hands clap
together, empty. That Regan’s
yearning for wild mushrooms
penetrates her sleep should be no
surprise. Foragers I’ve met over
the years speak
in rapturous
terms of en-
counters with a
growth of black
trumpets or the
perfect porcini,
characterizing
these finds as
the purest
rush. When
FIELDWORK Regan writes of
A Forager’s her waking dis-
Memoir coveries, her
By Iliana Regan excitement is
Agate. 329 pp. tangible: “The
$27 light caught
the rippled
edges of the
morels. I adjusted my eyes like
you do when looking at an autos-
tereogram. First there’s nothing;
then there’s everything.”
Regan’s new book, “Fieldwork:
A Forager’s Memoir,” is held to-
gether by mycelial architecture.
Mushrooms connect her to her
made her own field, and this was
part of her genius. Understand-
ing this other side of Hurston,
the one fueled by the discipline of
anthropology, is important to
getting the full picture of Hur-
ston as an artist.”
Hurston saw Black culture as
beautiful and evolving. “This is a
very important message because
she lived during a period when
some White people did not think
Black people had culture,” Strain
said. “Others felt like rural Black
Americans were some degraded
peoples of a past African great-
ness. There were White people
who lampooned Black culture for
laughs and entertainment, which
includes minstrelsy. Zora Neale
Hurston, like other figures who
are considered to be a part of the
Harlem Renaissance — the New
Negro Movement — worked to
bring authentic representations
of Black people to the public.”
Hurston was born in Notasul-
ga, Ala., on Jan. 7, 1891. When she
was about a year old, her family
moved to Eatonville, Fla., which
was incorporated in 1887, becom-
ing one of the first self-governed
all-Black cities in America. “It
had five lakes,” she wrote, “three
croquet courts, three hundred
brown skins, three hundred good
swimmers, plenty of guavas, two
schools and no jail house.”
Her father, John Hurston, a
Baptist preacher and carpenter,
was elected mayor of Eatonville
for three terms. Hurston grew up
free-spirited, with seven siblings
in a beautiful Black world — a
house with eight rooms, sur-
rounded by a yard of Bermuda
grass, jasmine bushes, a five-acre
garden and orange, tangerine
and grapefruit trees. “Mama ex-
horted her children at every
opportunity, ‘to jump at de sun,’”
the pain of eating Flamin’ Hot
Cheetos and the cost-of-living cri-
sis. Early on, it was used most
often to capture personal strug-
gles, but through years of pan-
demic, climate change and other
strife, its success has become a
symptom of a broader sense that
“we are watching something
crumble,” Green says.
After the 2016 election, Green
drew his own alternative, in
which the dog screams, “This is
not fine” and puts out the fire.
“What I never really saw in the
[original use of the] meme was
growing from the problems we’re
dealing with,” he said.
This has stuck with Green as
the image’s popularity spikes
with fresh crises. He sells meme
merchandise and does related
projects to support his other
work, but it can feel strange to
build a career on an image of
helplessness, Green said. “The
meme stays the same, but what
people get out of it is a little bit
different every year,” he said.
“Ain’t that unfortunate.”
Once, “the house burning may
have just been your final exams,”
he said, referring to an early
popular usage of the meme. “Now,
it’s feeling like it’s the world, it’s
your country.”
forebears. Great-grandmother
Busia from a village in northern
Poland used boletus to give
czarnina, duck blood soup, the
flavor of the forest. Regan spent
countless childhood hours
searching for wild mushrooms
among the oak, pine and hemlock
of rural Indiana with her father.
She watched keenly as her moth-
er cleaned and sliced the day’s
find on the counter island in their
farmhouse kitchen. Wild mush-
rooms even made an appearance
in the hospital room not long
after her birth. Today, she collects
them on her land in Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula and serves them
to guests at the Milkweed Inn,
which she owns and runs with her
wife, Anna.
“Fieldwork” is Regan’s second
book, and although it is a love
letter to the land on which she
lives and a broadside against
those behind deforestation, it
covers still more extensive
ground. Braided into sections
about the Milkweed Inn and its
guests are tales of Regan’s home-
stead childhood. In affectingly
honest and nuanced portraits,
she describes her mother and
father. Struggles with addiction
— her family’s as surely as her
own — are a weighty and constant
presence.
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The PBS documentary “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space”
focuses on the anthropologist, who challenged assumptions about
race that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
Hurston wrote in “Dust Tracks
on a Road: An Autobiography.”
“We might not land on the sun,
but at least we would get off the
ground.”
When Hurston was 13, her
mother died. She was sent away
to Jacksonville to attend Florida
Baptist Academy. After her father
stopped paying tuition, she was
forced to work, scrubbing floors.
At age 26, Hurston found her
way to Baltimore. Cutting 10
years off her age, she worked by
day and attended high school by
night at Morgan Academy. She
later moved to Washington, at-
tending Howard Academy and
graduating in 1919. She then
enrolled at Howard University.
On campus, she joined the
Howard Players theater compa-
ny and met Alain Locke, a philos-
ophy professor who pioneered
the “New Negro” movement
Panels from a comic created by K.C. Green in 2013 that went viral over the past decade. Once, “the house burning may have just been your
final exams,” Green said, referring to an early popular usage of the meme. “Now, it’s feeling like it’s the world, it’s your country.”
But it’s not that society has
descended into permanent may-
hem. If we once faced the flames
when we turned on the TV news
at night, the ever-present nature
of the internet has made many of
us residents in the burning house.
“As we become more online,
the veil is lifted,” Green said. “We
see all the crazy stuff people do
and say.”
Throughout, Regan examines
her loved ones — and herself —
with intense, sometimes painful
honesty. No one emerges at the
end of the book as entirely good
or bad (save, perhaps, for Busia,
Regan’s culinary foremother).
That fine shading lends a truth to
her prose, nowhere more so than
when she recounts how in June
2020, after more than a decade of
sobriety, she started drinking
again.
The movies tell us that alcohol-
ics relapse in moments of tremen-
dous anguish — a divorce, say, or
the death of a child. Far more in
line with reality, it seems to me, is
how Regan presents it: “Every-
thing and nothing happened,
that’s sort of how things like this
go. One day your shoe comes
untied and the next day you’re
having a glass of whiskey.”
These sections give “Field-
work” an immense intimacy, as if
the reader were sitting beside
In “Fieldwork,” Michigan innkeeper
Iliana Regan’s prose comes alive when
she tells us how wild game tastes of berries
and grubs, acorns and cedar.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
whose mission was to reshape
what White society thought
about Black people. Hurston
wrote for Howard’s Stylus Maga-
zine and co-founded the Hilltop,
now one of the country’s oldest
Black collegiate newspapers.
In 1924, Hurston published a
short story in Opportunity: A
Journal of Negro Life. The jour-
nal’s editor, Charles S. Johnson,
encouraged her to move to New
York to join the literary scene.
“So, the week of January 1925
found me in New York with a
dollar fifty, no job, no friends and
a lot of hope,” Hurston wrote.
She arrived in Harlem, consid-
ered the “Mecca for the New
Negro.” Months later, Hurston
was invited to a literary awards
ceremony, where she met Langs-
ton Hughes, who won top prize
for his poem “The Weary Blues.”
Hurston won four awards. That
And there’s no buffer between
whatever nonsense Twitter just
fed you and the banal demands of
life. “You have to just be like,
‘Well, now I know that, and I still
have to pick up my daughter from
ballet,’” Green said.
That is the surreal feeling the
comic most poignantly captures.
Driving to work under a violent
orange sky as wildfires burn in
Regan, listening to her tell her
story with candor and vulnerabil-
ity rather than encountering it as
text, at a distance, as a stranger.
Regan also excels where her love
for the outdoors and her skill as a
chef meet. She writes about na-
ture — especially edible nature —
with care and fervor. Her prose
comes alive when she tells us how
wild game tastes of berries and
grubs, acorns and cedar. She de-
scribes rubbing down the tender-
loin of a mule deer with home-
made white bean and wild rose
miso, and then hanging it above
an open fire. She calls on us to
look at nature — and indeed at
eating — in new ways and to
reconsider what might count as
an ingredient. Young nettles, she
notes, give a dish substance.
Woodruff adds flavors of tarragon
and vanilla. Gooseberry leaves
bring tannins. In these moments,
Regan is highly effective. You can
hear the hiss of fat dripping into
THE WASHINGTON POST . WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
night, she also met Annie Nathan
Meyer, a founder of Barnard
College, who raised scholarship
money for Hurston to attend
Barnard, where Hurston would
become the first Black female
student.
“I feel my race,” Hurston
wrote. “Among the thousand
white people, I am a dark rock
surged upon and over swept by a
cream sea, but through it all I
remain myself.” There, Hurston
met Franz Boas, known as the
founder of modern American
anthropology, who publicly re-
jected entrenched anthropologi-
cal racist theories about Black
people. Impressed by Hurston’s
work, Boas assigned Hurston to
travel to the South to research
the beliefs, dances, songs and
storytelling of Black people.
In Florida, Hurston rented a
two-seater Chevrolet and drove
to Eatonville but was met with
suspicion. She later explained
that her newly acquired “Bar-
nard” accent shut her out. She
returned to New York “with my
heart beneath my knees,” she
wrote.
In New York, Hurston contin-
ued to write. Hughes introduced
Hurston to his benefactor, Char-
lotte Osgood Mason, a pushy
White philanthropist, who
agreed to finance Hurston’s re-
search, providing Hurston with a
motion picture camera.
Hurston returned to the
South, collecting rare footage of
Black life. She was on a mission
to document “the Negro furthest
down.” On that journey, Hurston
interviewed Cudjo Lewis, then
the oldest living formerly en-
slaved man who had been ab-
ducted on the Clotilda ship, the
last slave ship to the United
States. Hurston called him by
the distance. Stopping at the gro-
cery store to buy milk, mid-insur-
rection. Walking your dog to the
tune of blaring ambulances at the
height of covid.
This is fine, we tell ourselves to
get by. This is fine, we say when
we know it most definitely is not.
And yet, there is something
comforting about having an im-
age to return to in helpless mo-
the flames. You ask yourself about
the sensation of wild greens
against your tongue.
At times, Regan falters in her
writer’s craft. She occasionally
gets lost in a labored or shopworn
simile (mushrooms like penises,
excitement in the gut like butter-
flies). In some paragraphs, she
layers comparisons so abundant-
ly that they blur into one another,
none evoking an image or holding
the power she intends. These
flaws make some sections of
“Fieldwork” uneven. A sentence
might contain one too many sub-
clauses. A metaphor might ob-
scure rather than brighten.
Nevertheless, the achievement
of the book remains intact. Regan
is at her most potent when she is
reflecting on the present. In pas-
sages ruminating about her at-
tempts to have a child with Anna,
her writing grows incandescent.
As with most of what she discuss-
es in “Fieldwork,” she describes
procreation — and the hardship it
sometimes brings — in a forager’s
parlance. “The wind is good at
carrying pollen and spores too,
like how sometimes little mush-
rooms sprout from the soil of the
plants in our windowsills. Anna
inseminating me was like that —
like the chances of the wind.”
Here, Regan’s simile strikes true.
his African name, Oluale Kosso-
la, and captured film footage.
Hurston wrote his story in the
book “Barracoon; the Story of
the Last Black Cargo,” but pub-
lishers insisted she translate his
words. Hurston refused to dilute
the authenticity of his voice.
“Barracoon” was finally pub-
lished in 2018, becoming a best-
seller.
In years that followed, Hur-
ston would publish at a rapid-fire
pace, winning critical acclaim for
“Their Eyes Were Watching God,”
a 1937 novel informed by her
anthropological research. In
1938, Hurston published “Tell My
Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti
and Jamaica.” In 1942, she pub-
lished her autobiography, “Dust
Tracks on a Road.”
Despite acclaim, Hurston nev-
er made enough money to fully
support herself with writing. In
1950, the Miami Herald pub-
lished an article about Hurston
working as a maid. Ten years
later, on Jan. 28, 1960, Hurston
died of heart disease after a
stroke. She’d been living in a
racially segregated nursing home
in Fort Pierce, Fla. She was
working on a novel at the time.
Her grave lay unmarked in
obscurity until the 1970s, when
writer Alice Walker, who would
go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for
her novel “The Color Purple,” led
an international push to honor
Hurston.
“It was not death she feared,”
Hurston wrote in “Their Eyes
Were Watching God.” “It was
misunderstanding.”
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a
Space repeats on PBS stations
(check local listings) and is available
for streaming at PBS.org and on the
PBS Video app.
KC GREEN
ments, Green said — as if by
empathizing with a cartoon dog,
we are all exhaling together.
“For me, it was my feelings
about getting my medication
right. For some kids, it was about
finals. For some, it was about
Trump getting elected. For some,
it was about covid,” he said.
“It’s kind of nice. It creates a
kind of community,” he said.
If you’re in search of a guide to
foraging, this is not your book.
“Fieldwork” offers little to those
hoping to find porcinis or pick
wild herbs — and that isn’t its
goal. Although the natural world
exists as an undercurrent in every
paragraph, what propels a reader
to the book’s final pages are the
people Regan writes about (her-
self chief among them) and the
stories she tells.
But after reading “Fieldwork,”
you still might find yourself cast-
ing a suspicious eye at the button
mushrooms wrapped in plastic
film at the local supermarket.
This is Regan’s other lasting ac-
complishment. Although never
sanctimonious, she summons her
readers to the forest. She reminds
us of nature’s great variety. She
calls on us to look with new eyes
at what we may once have consid-
ered pests (like nettles) or merely
part of the scenery (like cedar,
which she uses to flavor custard).
Anyone who has tasted nettle
soup or eaten fresh chanterelles,
simmered in cream and onion,
spooned over toasted sourdough
bread, will heartily agree.
Makana Eyre is a writer based in
Paris. His book of nonfiction about
music in the Nazi camps will be
published in May.
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Amid parental concerns,
some say #NoSleepovers
SLEEPOVERS FROM C1
accepted practice (many Gen-Z
TikTok users have meme’d the
awkward experience of turning
down sleepover invitations be-
cause of wary parents).
Millions of parents post under
the viral hashtag #NoSleepovers.
They flock to parenting influenc-
ers and psychiatrists on TikTok
who expound on various slee-
pover risks.
And there are parents who are
still on the fence, sharing their
uncertainty in online groups,
wanting to know how different
families approach the issue. Some
compromise by picking up their
children from a slumber party at
10 p.m. or midnight (often called
a “half-over,” “sleep-under” or
“late-over”). Others allow slee-
povers only with a small circle of
close, trusted friends.
For Thrasher, 45, who lives
with her husband and their three
sons in Portland, Ore., the first
thing that came to mind was that
she didn’t know the hosting fam-
ily well. She also feels protective of
her multiracial boys, who are of-
ten the only kids of color in their
group of friends — a dynamic that
she knows can shape social ex-
periences.
For Heather, a mom of two
teens in Massachusetts who spoke
on the condition that her full
name not be used to protect her
family’s privacy, the pervasive-
ness of alcohol gives her pause. “I
could see what other parents were
posting on social media, and it
made me wary,” she says. “Photos
of hard liquor. Glamorizing a cul-
ture of drinking.”
Ariele Sullivan, a 37-year-old
mother of two in New Jersey, says
she doesn’t want her kids on
screens all night. “I get very upset
when I pick my kids up from a
playdate and I hear, ‘Oh, we
watched TV the whole time,’” she
says. “I want my kids to be out-
doors, I want them to be playing
and learning how to socialize.”
Guns were a top concern for
Casey Cavalier, 56, who has a
10-year-old son. Before his family
moved to the Pacific Northwest
Buyer of the ‘Goonies’ house in Oregon plans to fully furnish it with nostalgia
BY K YLE M ELNICK
After closing on the house from
“The Goonies” last week, Behman
Zakeri set the property’s first
guideline: Guests are encouraged
to do the “truffle shuffle” when
entering.
The dance, which Chunk was
forced to perform to access the
house in the 1985 movie, is not the
only nod to “The Goonies” fans
might spot on Zakeri’s new lawn.
He also plans to re-create the
contraption that opened the
property’s gate, which included a
bowling ball, a balloon, a chicken
and a football.
Zakeri, a 46-year-old entrepre-
neur from Kansas, first watched
“The Goonies” at age 8 and has
since seen it more than 100 times.
The adventure story not only led
to some of his favorite childhood
memories, but also influenced his
work ethic.
In buying the Astoria, Ore.,
property for $1.65 million, Zakeri
hopes to preserve the film’s lega-
cy.
“Somebody that was a true
‘Goonie’ needed to have it to kind
of make sure that it didn’t go
away,” Zakeri said. “If the wrong
person buys ‘The Goonies’ house,
what if they do what Troy’s father
wanted to do in the movie and
bulldoze it and turn it into a golf
course or something? Too many
people’s hearts would break.”
In the summer of 1985, Zakeri
was excited to go to the movies
with his family in Overland Park,
Kan. — mostly because of the
popcorn. When the lights
CNET says it is ‘actively
reviewing’ its AI articles
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human journalist’s writing.”
CNET’s robot-written copy is
generally indistinguishable from
the human-produced kind, al-
though it’s not exactly snappy or
scintillating. It’s, well, robotic:
serviceable but plodding, pocked
by cliches, lacking humor or sass
or anything resembling emotions
or idiosyncrasies.
“The choice between a bank
and credit union is not one-size-
fits-all,” reads one AI-written sto-
ry published by CNET in Decem-
ber. “You’ll have to weigh the pros
and cons with your goals to deter-
mine your best fit.”
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last year, many of their neighbors
in their Texas community kept
firearms at home. Sleepover invi-
tations also meant explaining
that he and his husband were gay
parents: “People didn’t always
know — they just knew that our
kids were friends in school,” he
says. “So it meant coming out
again.”
As parents look to establish
common ground with prospective
sleepover hosts, the resulting
questions — do you use parental
controls for screen time? Do you
own a gun? Are you vaccinated
and boosted? — feel imbued with
something more complex than a
purely logistical checklist. They
surface the underlying truth that
not everyone shares the same pri-
orities and values, and those pri-
orities and values might not feel
negotiable. At a time when so
much of our societal discourse is
focused on how divided we’ve
become, sleepover invitations are
perhaps just one more way to
reveal the fault lines between us.
M
ary Alvord isn’t surprised
that more parents are feel-
ing uncertain about trust-
ing other families to keep their
kids overnight. Over her 40-plus
years as a clinical psychologist
and author who works with fami-
lies and children, Alvord has seen
parental anxiety creep steadily
upward. The pandemic exacer-
bated that pattern, she says, turn-
ing social interactions between
families into more complicated,
calculated risks.
But she noticed a heightened
sense of caution among parents
even before covid, with parents
more involved in monitoring
their children’s social experi-
ences. “It’s a delicate balance —
you do not want to put your chil-
dren in harm’s way,” she says. “On
the other hand, you don’t want
them to be afraid of risks that are
important to move them further
in life, like trying new things,
tolerating some level of discom-
fort, pushing yourself outside
your comfort zone.”
Alvord thinks social media has
something to do with this ampli-
Last week, Behman Zakeri closed on the house in Astoria, Ore., that played a central role in the 1985
comedy “The Goonies.” Zakeri, who saw the movie when he was 8, drew insipration from the film.
dimmed in the theater, he soon
became engrossed in “The Goo-
nies,” which features a group of
kids trying to protect one of their
family’s homes from foreclosure.
After finding an ancient map, the
children search for treasure.
During the nearly two-hour
viewing, Zakeri related to protag-
onist Mikey Walsh’s leadership
skills. He memorized Walsh’s
marquee dialogue, including
when he told his friends “Goonies
Advises another bot-written
story: “The longer you leave your
investment in a savings account
or money-market account, the
more time you have to leverage
the power of compounding.”
Other grist from CNET’s bots
includes such stories as “Should
You Break an Early CD for a Better
Rate?” and “What is Zelle and
How Does It Work?”
The deployment of the technol-
ogy comes amid growing concern
about the uses and potential abus-
es of sophisticated AI engines.
The technology’s astonishing ca-
pabilities have led some school
districts to consider banning it
lest students use it to cut corners
With new concerns over guns in the house, alcohol use, vaccination
status and more, many parents are increasingly putting their feet
down on the question of whether children can go on sleepovers.
fied sense of vigilance, the fact
that today’s parents are inundat-
ed with an overwhelming volume
of information and traumatic ac-
counts of potential dangers.
There is the ambient sense that
we live in a perilous time to raise a
child, giving parents plenty of
reason to feel on edge.
“There’s just a lot more for
parents to think about now,” Al-
vord says. “And it’s not that some
of these things weren’t going on
before, but we weren’t as aware of
it, people weren’t talking about it.”
Alvord, who grew up the
daughter of Armenian immi-
grants in New York City, fondly
remembers attending sleepovers
when she was a young girl. That
kind of social experience can fos-
ter a sense of independence and
offer kids a new way to under-
stand their peers, exposing them
to different environments, differ-
ent foods, different rhythms and
routines. “I learned a lot by going
to other people’s homes,” she says.
But kids can build social fluen-
cy and resilience through many
different kinds of encounters.
“Sleepovers are just one way,” Al-
vord says, “and I think we all do
need to be sensitive to kids who
may feel left out because their
families don’t believe in it — that’s
fine, that’s their family value.”
A parent’s own past experi-
ences can also shape how they
approach the issue. For Anisha
Jones, a mother in Little Rock
with six kids in her blended fam-
ily, there are certain rules about
sleepovers that she isn’t willing to
never say die.”
Afterward, Zakeri asked neigh-
bors whether he could search
their basements in hopes of locat-
ing a secret tunnel leading to
treasure. The movie characters’
drive to unearth valuables moti-
vated Zakeri to earn money for
his Nintendo games by shoveling
snow, mowing lawns and working
as a grocery clerk.
In the movie, Walsh discovers a
Lou Gehrig baseball card after
on class and homework assign-
ments.
In a statement published last
week, CNET’s editor, Connie Gug-
lielmo, called her site’s use of AI
“an experiment” aimed not at
replacing reporters but assisting
their work. “The goal is to see if
the tech can help our busy staff of
reporters and editors with their
job to cover topics from a 360-
degree perspective,” she wrote.
Guglielmo didn’t respond to a
request for comment.
Bankrate and CNET said in a
statement on Tuesday that the
publications are “actively review-
ing all our AI-assisted pieces to
make sure no further inaccuracies
made it through the editing proc-
ess, as humans make mistakes,
too. We will continue to issue any
necessary corrections.”
Even before CNET’s grand ex-
periment, other news organiza-
tions had used automation in a
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bend. Her 7-year-old daughter at-
tended her first-ever sleepover
just a few weeks ago, and this was
only because the invitation came
from one of Jones’s closest
friends, who has a 5-year-old
daughter, and there would be no
men or boys at the house. These
kinds of rules, Jones says, are
nearly unanimous among her
friends.
“We’re all on the same page,
and I think that’s the reason why
Black families tend to have
auntie-cousin relationships with
their friends. They get close. They
know them. They’ve grown up
together, they’ve been friends for
decades,” Jones says. “With my
friends, it’s like — I know I can
trust you. But if I had a friend who
I can trust with my kids, and she
was dating a guy, and he would be
staying the night, my daughter
would not be there. And my friend
would understand that.”
Jones’s trust is hard-won, she
says. She’s a survivor of childhood
sexual abuse, the daughter of a
mother who struggled with addic-
tion. She is also a federal public
defender who has seen horrific
stories involving children unfold
in courtrooms. “When you see
that all the time in your career,
and you have the background that
I have, it makes you feel a lot more
firm about your rules about what
can and cannot happen with your
children,” she says.
Renata, a 43-year-old mother
of two in Maryland who spoke on
the condition that her full name
not be used to protect her family’s
JORDAN MILLER/JOHN L. SCOTT REAL ESTATE
stumbling upon a skeleton dur-
ing the treasure hunt. At 14, Zak-
eri said, he helped sell baseball
cards at a store. He now manages
a card company, Collector’s
Cache, and other businesses re-
lated to “The Goonies.”
One of them, We Buy Gold,
deals in gold, silver and platinum
jewelry — items Zakeri equates to
the movie’s treasure. He also
manages an escape-room compa-
ny, which Zakeri compared to the
more limited capacity to augment
and analyze their work. The Asso-
ciated Press began using AI in
2014 to produce corporate earn-
ings stories. It also has used the
technology for sports recaps.
But AP’s system is relatively
crude — it essentially inserts new
information into pre-formatted
stories, like a game of Mad Libs —
compared with CNET’s machine
creation of feature-length articles.
Others have created internal
tools to assess human work —
such as a Financial Times bot that
checks to see if their stories quote
too many men. The International
Consortium of Investigative Jour-
nalists has set AI loose on millions
of pages of leaked financial and
legal documents to identify de-
tails that deserve a closer look
from its reporters.
Beyond flawed reporting, AI-
written stories raise a few practi-
cal and ethical questions that
privacy, shares similar feelings.
Among her circle of fellow Black
moms, sleepovers with their
daughters are often hosted at ho-
tels specifically so that husbands,
brothers and older siblings are
very clearly not in attendance.
Renata grew up going to many
sleepovers herself, and she en-
joyed them, but she has friends
who have told her “horror stories”
that left her rattled. “I feel like I
dodged all the bullets,” she says.
“There was no sexual assault, no-
body was inappropriate, every-
body was nice, girls were nice,
nobody asked me to do anything
that I didn’t want to do. I’m not
sure how I escaped anything bad
happening, but I know a lot of
people experienced it.”
Heather, the mom who worries
about drinking culture, says her
husband has his own hesitations.
He’s a home contractor, and his
work takes him into basements
and crawl spaces and areas typi-
cally hidden from guests. “He sees
the conditions and environments
people really live in. Or the hob-
bies they’re secretly into,” she
says. “I know some of what he’s
seen has made him leery of slee-
povers.”
Casey Cavalier is a member of
online parenting forums for fa-
thers, and he’s frequently seen
posts wondering how to handle a
sleepover where kids of more than
one gender might be present. Cav-
alier isn’t worried about that is-
sue, he says; he’s more concerned
about the possibility of experi-
ences that echo what he endured
as a kid.
“I worry about them fighting
with each other, or bullying each
other,” Cavalier says. He worries
about kids talking about sex or
other issues where misinforma-
tion might be spread, “and I’d
rather he talk to me first. But
that’s all a natural part of growing
up, so —” he trails off. “I’m not a
helicopter parent, but he’s our
only son.”
A feeling of deep trust is a
necessity for Adiba Nelson to al-
low her disabled daughter to at-
tend a sleepover with friends: Her
13-year-old daughter, Emory, uses
a wheelchair and relies on a com-
puter to help her communicate.
Emory is also very social, and
when she was in first grade, one of
her close friends — the daughter
of their school’s speech therapist,
a woman Nelson knew well and
group navigating caverns in the
film.
“Having that relentless pursuit
for success, in the case of the
movie, it’s finding One-Eyed Wil-
ly’s treasure,” Zakeri said. “In
business, it’s not going out of
business, making money and pay-
ing the bills. I applied the same
principles in business.”
In 2013, Zakeri attended a
friend’s birthday party in Port-
land, Ore., and learned that the
“Goonies” house wasn’t far away.
He and a friend drove nearly 100
miles to take pictures in front of
the residence, which was built
around 1896 and sits near the
Pacific Ocean.
Zakeri also toured the two-sto-
ry home in June 2015, when he
visited for the film’s 30th anniver-
sary. He was ecstatic to climb into
the attic and sit in the living
room.
“Hey, if you ever sell this thing,
I’d love to buy it,” Zakeri said he
told the owner, Sandi Preston,
who bought the property in 2001.
“Yeah, you and a million other
Goonies,” Zakeri recalled Preston
saying.
When the house went on the
market in November, Zakeri’s
friends showed him the posting
within minutes. Zakeri said he
messaged Preston: “Remember
me? I’m going to make a run at
this thing.”
Zakeri called real estate agent
Jordan Miller that day and ex-
plained his passion for “The Goo-
nies.” Zakeri called Miller almost
every day over the next week for
updates. On Nov. 23, six days after
journalists are only beginning to
ponder.
One is plagiarism: Writer Alex
Kantrowitz found last week that a
Substack post written by a mys-
terious author named Petra con-
tained phrases and sentences lift-
ed from a column Kantrowitz had
published two days earlier. He
later discovered that Petra had
used AI programs to “remix” con-
tent from other sources.
After all, given that AI pro-
grams assemble articles by churn-
ing through mountains of public-
ly available information, even the
best automated stories are essen-
tially clip jobs, devoid of new
findings or original reporting.
“These tools can’t go out and
report or ask questions,” said Matt
MacVey, who heads an AI and
local news project at the NYC
Media Lab at New York Univer-
sity. So their stories will never
break new ground or deliver a
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trusted implicitly — invited Emo-
ry to a sleepover.
“It’s a lot to expect another
parent, who is simultaneously
parenting 10 other small children,
to help your child exclusively,”
Nelson says in an email. “But she
insisted I leave Emory there . . .
and if she needed me, she’d call
me. She never called, and Emory
had a fantastic time. And that was
the only sleepover that she was
ever invited to.”
Nelson would require that
same level of confidence with any
parent who would care for her
daughter overnight — but if the
possibility presented itself again,
she would welcome it, she says.
“I’d be thrilled for Emory. . . .
She’d be over the moon. But she’s
in junior high now, and friend
circles change,” Nelson says. “So,
yeah. Sleepovers are not a thing
we see or do anymore.”
W
hen Cecily Thrasher
picked up her son from
his friend’s house after
dinner, he told her he was disap-
pointed that he couldn’t spend
the night. But there was no drama
about it, she says; after all, he had
still spent most of the day there.
She’s been thinking about how
her kids are in contact with their
friends all the time, in a way she
never was. “They’re at school, they
are texting, they have activities
they all do together. They’re just
far more scheduled and around
their friends far more than I really
ever was,” she says. When she
came home from school as a kid,
she was truly apart from her
peers, and that might be part of
what made sleepovers feel so spe-
cial — all that unlimited access to
one another. “But I tend to find
that my boys need time away
from their social circles, because
they’re with other kids all the
time.”
Thrasher came of age sleeping
over with her friends nearly every
weekend. Most of those experi-
ences were good ones. But the
landscape of American child-
hood, and American parenting,
has changed since then, and her
feelings about sleepovers are
changing too.
“I feel like my kids can still
experience these social interac-
tions, these rites of passage,” she
says, “just in ways that look differ-
ent from what they were when I
was growing up.”
their initial call, Zakeri’s phone
rang.
“Check your inbox,” he recalled
Miller saying. “You’re officially
under contract for the ‘Goonies’
house.”
With family at his Overland
Park house for Thanksgiving,
Zakeri said, he threw his phone
across the living room, screamed
and jumped on his furniture.
“I’m 8 years old again,” Zakeri
said.
“I couldn’t really imagine
much better of a buyer,” Miller
said. “There’s been concerns
about, ‘Oh, is some big company
going to come in and buy it,
change a bunch of stuff or try to
make money off the house?’
That’s not his vision whatsoever.”
Recognizing the film’s themes
of companionship, Michael
Eakin, Zakeri’s childhood friend,
purchased a house next door to
the “Goonies” home. While Zakeri
and his wife, Liz, will primarily
live in Kansas, he intends to re-
decorate the “Goonies” house as it
appeared in the movie.
That includes installing a zip
line like the one Richard “Data”
Wang rode in the movie and
painting dark-red trim on the
home’s exterior. In the basement,
he may build a wax statue of
Steven Spielberg, who wrote the
film’s story.
He hasn’t cemented arrange-
ments, but Zakeri said he wants
the house to be a gathering spot
for fans.
“I’m just super excited to try to
be the best I can be for the
‘Goonies’ community,” he said.
scoop.
The larger fear about AI among
journalists, however, is whether it
represents an existential threat.
Employment in the news media
has been shrinking for decades,
and machines may only acceler-
ate the problem.
“This is, perhaps, the classic
story of automation reducing the
need for human labor and/or
changing the nature of human
labor,” said Farid. “The difference
now is that the automation is not
disrupting manual work, but is
instead disrupting highly creative
work that was thought to be out-
side the reach of automation.”
Social media trolls have long
taunted newly laid-off reporters
with the epithet “Learn to code.”
Despite evident flaws, the rise of
AI reporting suggests the codes
being created may someday be the
very thing driving journalists
from their newsrooms.
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How Graceland became a Presley wonderland, where Lisa Marie will be buried
BY G ILLIAN B ROCKELL
Lisa Marie Presley was at
Graceland on Jan. 8 for the an-
nual ceremony honoring the
birthday of her father, Elvis Pres-
ley. There was a multitiered
birthday cake topped with a
crown and a spirited crowd to
welcome her.
She spoke briefly, her voice
quiet and raspy, and her eyes
covered with dark sunglasses.
“It’s been awhile. I missed you,”
she said to cheers. “It’s just so
moving how every year you come
from all over the world.”
Not far away are the graves of
her father, who died in 1977 at 42
years old, and her son, Benjamin
Keough, who died at 27 in 2020.
Days later, Lisa Marie Presley
died suddenly at 54, leaving
behind three daughters and her
mother. A public memorial serv-
ice is planned on Graceland’s
front lawn on Sunday, after
which Presley will also be laid to
rest there, according to a Grace-
land spokesman.
More than 20 million tourists
have visited Graceland since it
opened to the public in the early
1980s, making it one of the
most-visited homes in the United
States. It’s on the National Regis-
ter of Historic Places and has
been designated a National His-
torical Landmark. Paul Simon
and Phoebe Bridgers have writ-
ten songs about it. Sitting presi-
dents — American and otherwise
— have visited, as have princes
(Harry and William) and Queens
(of the Stone Age). During the
peak season in July, more than
4,000 people visit per day, ac-
cording to the Graceland web-
site, and interest has only in-
creased since the release of Baz
22. Before then, he had pur-
chased a home in Memphis off
his early “Heartbreak Hotel”
earnings, but neighbors were
complaining about the growing
crowds swarming the streets all
day and night. While on tour and
with his star still rising, he asked
his parents to find another house
farther out of town and on a
larger property that could be
walled off. They found Grace-
land, and Presley purchased it
for $102,000 — about $1 million
today.
The place was already huge —
more than 10,000 square feet —
but over the years, Presley ex-
panded it to a 17,000-square-foot
wonderland. There was a pool
room, a TV room, a music room,
crystal chandeliers and gold
frames everywhere.
The Jungle Room featured
green shag carpeting, top-of-the-
line wood paneling and an in-
door waterfall. There was a rac-
quetball building, a trophy build-
ing, a shooting range and a stable
full of horses.
BETH J. HARPAZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS His girlfriend, Priscilla Beau-
Visitors prepare to tour Graceland in Memphis in 2017. When Elvis Presley purchased the mansion in lieu, moved in during the 1960s,
1957, it was already more than 10,000 square feet, but over the years he expanded it significantly. after living for years with Elvis’s
father and stepmother a few
Luhrmann’s biopic “Elvis” last an email. blocks away — a requirement of
summer. Despite its plantation-style ap- her out-of-state parents. The
But make no mistake: Grace- The Jungle Room pearance, Graceland is less than couple married in 1967, and their
land was Lisa Marie Presley’s a century old, built in 1939 for daughter was born exactly nine
house. She lived there until her featured green Ruth Brown Moore and Thomas months later, on Feb. 1, 1968.
parents’ marriage ended and vis- Moore, on property Ruth had Presley showered Lisa Marie
ited frequently after their di- shag carpeting, inherited; the Grace in “Grace- in the trappings of wealth with
vorce. She was there the night land” was Ruth’s beloved aunt. the same indulgence with which
her father died, and as his heir, top-of-the-line The mansion was blessed with he had expanded Graceland. As a
she maintained sole ownership music long before Elvis arrived, baby, she slept in a custom
of the house and its contents. wood paneling and as the Moores’ daughter became canopy-style crib; birthday gifts
With her passing, the mansion an accomplished harpist, and included a slot machine, a mink
will go into a trust to benefit her an indoor “Classical recitals in the front coat and a diamond ring. He also
three daughters, but nothing will formal rooms were common,” named one of his two private jets
change in its daily operations, waterfall. according to the website. after her; it is now parked on the
the Graceland spokesman said in Elvis took over in 1957, at age Graceland property.
As the 1970s rolled on and
Elvis and Priscilla separated, he
fell further into the grip of drug
abuse and often slept all day and
stayed up all night, even when
his daughter visited. In 2003, she
told Rolling Stone that when she
was 7 or 8, she told him she was
afraid he would die. “I just had a
feeling. He wasn’t doing well,”
she said. He died in 1977, when
she was 9. She was visiting
Graceland at the time.
Elvis had named his father,
grandmother and Lisa Marie as
his heirs; by 1980, she was the
only one left. There wasn’t much
inheritance left, either, spurring
her mother and others adminis-
tering the family trust to open
Graceland to tourism. The
Graceland complex now includes
the mansion, a shopping center
with gift shops and restaurants, a
museum, a car museum and a
luxury hotel.
When Lisa Marie Presley
gained control in 1993 when she
turned 25, it was worth $100 mil-
lion. In 2005, she sold a control-
ling stake in the company that
maintains the complex, Elvis
Presley Enterprises, but main-
tained control of the house and
all of her father’s belongings.
One of Elvis’s favorite places at
Graceland was his meditation
garden, so it was natural that he
be laid to rest there. Over the
years, his grave has been joined
by the graves of his grandmother,
parents and grandson, plus a
memorial dedicated to the twin
brother who died during their
birth.
In a 2003 Playboy interview,
Lisa Marie said, “All the graves
are lined up and there’s a spot
there, waiting for me, right next
to my grandmother.”

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Casual friend’s not-so-casual gifts make me feel inadequate and uncomfortable
Dear Amy: I have
Ask Amy a casual friend
AMY who won’t stop
DICKINSON giving me
excessive gifts,
even after I have
asked her to stop. We take
morning walks together, but we
do not share any other social
activities.
She found out when my
birthday is and surprised me
with a custom-made cake and a
large bag full (13 items) of what
she called “trinkets” — but some
of these items retail for $25 to
$30 each! I thanked her but also
protested loudly that it was way
too much. I tried to reciprocate
on her birthday but could not
keep up.
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her about how uncomfortable step. This is NOT the “new any kind. I just want to enjoy our dramatic and lasting change is a body being good simply
this makes me. So I did. normal.” You are not practical relationship, without anything rare, but I take issue with the because it is a body.
I asked her if we could stop and frugal “to a fault.” Your else attached. Can you do that?” “accept or detach” idea. As someone who struggled
exchanging gifts, and she agreed. walking partner is a boundary- If she responds with a wink Acceptance is a form of with their looks for years, when I
This year around Thanksgiving, leaper to a fault. Your choice to wink, nod nod, then you should detachment in its purest form, began to recognize that my body
I reminded her again to please follow your therapist’s advice assume that she will simply but sometimes — when change is was good simply because it did
NOT get me a Christmas gift, was a good one. You have never take your needs seriously necessary for a relationship to the things bodies are made for, I
and she responded with an handled this well. You’ve asked or respect your wishes. continue — if change doesn’t found myself freed from
“eyeroll-okay-sure.” This year she the other person to cease this happen, disengagement is called negative emotions connected to
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grandkids), I actually sat down myself. — Brian portion of it, she still couldn’t expressed this. Thank you!
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG-13) 7:00 CC: 1:45-6:00 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 3:15- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish M3GAN (PG-13) 12:40-1:10- Plane (R) 11:20-2:00-4:50-7:40 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D We, the Marines (NR) 10:00-
(PG) CC: 11:00-1:40-4:10- 5:45-8:30 5:10-7:50 The Whale (R) CC: 2:45-6:00- (PG-13) 10:00-2:30 11:00-12:00-1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00 13) 6:30; 2:30
(PG) 5:40 The Metropolitan Opera: 9:00
6:40-9:10 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: The Fabelmans (PG-13) 1:30 Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 M3GAN (PG-13) 11:45-1:00- Regal Manassas & IMAX
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Landmark Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Regal Ballston Quarter
2:45-4:30 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) The Whale (R) 1:10-4:00-7:10 5:00-8:00 11380 Bulloch Drive
13) OC: 5:30 Bethesda Row Cinema (PG-13) CC: 4:15-8:30 671 North Glebe Road
House Party (R) CC: 3:30- 12:30-3:40-6:50 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
6:10-8:45 7235 Woodmont Avenue Plane (R) 12:55-4:10-7:00 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG-13) 12:00-7:15 13) 11:50-4:10-6:00
AMC Center Park 8 (PG-13) 1:00-5:10 (PG) CC: 2:15-6:30-9:15 13) 12:30-3:30-5:00-8:00
4001 Powder Mill Rd. Plane (R) CC: 3:15-8:40 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Varisu (Tamil) 12:50-4:40-8:20 Avatar: The Way of Water - An Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Black Panther: Wakanda For- Black Panther: Wakanda
13) 3:00-6:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- The Metropolitan Opera: Tár (R) 4:00
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) 3D (PG) CC: 1:00-3:45
(PG) 11:00-3:00 ever (PG-13) 1:00-4:50-8:40 Forever (PG-13) 4:00-7:50
13) CC: 1:00-6:30 Fedora ENCORE 6:30 Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 11:00-3:10-7:20 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
The Fabelmans (PG-13) Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Angelika Film Center Mosaic M3GAN (PG-13) 11:50-12:20-
Black Panther: Wakanda Skinamarink 6:30 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2911 District Ave Dance With Somebody (PG-13)
3:10-6:15 (PG-13) 1:50-6:00 (PG-13) CC: 1:00-9:15 2:40-3:10-5:30-8:20
Forever (PG-13) CC: 3:45 Avatar: The Way of Water - An (PG) 11:10-1:50-4:20-7:05 12:20
Living (PG-13) 4:30-7:10 Thunivu 12:45-5:20-8:35 The Devil Conspiracy (R) CC: Living (PG-13) OC: 12:20 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) M3GAN (PG-13) 12:10-2:50-8:10
M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 2:15- IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) Regal Westview & IMAX 12:00-3:20-6:50
CC: 3:15-7:15 Women Talking (PG-13) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:15 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
5:00-7:40 5243 Buckeystown Pike Partners in Crime 1:45-5:30 (PG-13) 12:15-4:15-8:00 House Party (R) 1:30-4:30-7:30
4:50-7:30 (PG) 12:20-4:30-7:20
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Avatar: The Way of Water The Banshees of Inisherin (R) Plane (R) 1:10-4:10-7:10
12:30-3:45
1:15-4:15-7:15 (PG-13) CC: 3:00-7:00 Broker (R) 4:00-7:20 Waltair Veerayya (Telugu) AMC Potomac Mills 18 Plane (R) 1:00-3:50-6:45
Corsage 7:15 1:20-5:00-8:30 (PG-13) 6:00 2700 Potomac Mills Circle 12:00-2:35-5:15-7:45 The Metropolitan Opera:
House Party (R) CC: 1:45- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Thunivu 12:50-4:30-8:00
(PG) CC: 3:15-6:00-8:35 The Whale (R) 3:45-6:30 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Black Panther: Wakanda Broker (R) 1:15-4:10-7:00 Fedora ENCORE 6:30
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Avatar: The Way of Water - An
Avatar: The Way of Water 3D (PG-13) 3:30-7:40 Forever (PG-13) 11:30AM Women Talking (PG-13) 12:00- The Whale (R) 12:50-3:50-7:20
Plane (R) CC: 12:45-4:45-7:30 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
13) CC: 4:15-8:30; 6:45
2:30-5:00-7:25 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13)
(PG-13) 3:30-7:45 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Black Panther: Wakanda For- 11:00-3:20-7:40
Plane (R) OC: 6:00 13) OC: 12:25 11:50-3:00-6:20-9:20 ever (PG-13) CC: 4:40-8:15 Corsage 12:30-5:45 (PG-13) 7:00 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D
(PG-13) CC: 12:00-4:00-7:15 Landmark at House Party (R) 12:00-2:40- Living (PG-13) 2:40-5:05-7:35 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish AMC Montgomery 16 Annapolis Harbour Center Regal Hyattsville Royale Whitney Houston: I Wanna (PG-13) 12:40-5:10
(PG) CC: 1:30-4:00-8:00 7101 Democracy Boulevard 2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 6505 America Blvd.
5:20-8:10 Dance With Somebody (PG-13) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG) 12:10-3:00-5:50-8:50 Shalaby 11:20-2:00-4:40-7:30
Plane (R) 12:20-3:10-6:00-8:50 CC: 3:25 (PG) 12:15-2:35-5:05-7:30 Nabil El Gamil Dr. Tagmeel Waltair Veerayya (Telugu)
AMC Columbia 14 Avatar: The Way of Water Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Black Panther: Wakanda Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Devotion (PG-13) CC: 6:40 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) 12:40-3:40-6:40
(PG-13) CC: 2:45-4:15-5:30- 13) 3:45-7:00 Forever (PG-13) 12:05-6:40 12:00-3:40-7:20
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway (PG-13) 11:40-3:45-8:00 The Woman King (PG-13) 1:00-3:00-4:30-7:15-8:15 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Babylon (R) 3:50-7:35 Avatar: The Way of Water
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- 7:00-8:30 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) (PG-13) 12:00-1:05-2:05-4:10-
Avatar: The Way of Water - An CC: 6:20 CMX Village 14 13) OC: 2:30 (PG) 11:30-2:10-4:50-7:35
13) CC: 3:00-7:15 Black Panther: Wakanda For- IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 3:00-4:00-
4:20-7:10-8:00 5:10-7:00-8:30 1600 Village Market Boulevard Regal Dulles Town Center Veera Simha Reddy (NBK107)
Black Panther: Wakanda For- ever (PG-13) CC: 2:55-6:30 Tár (R) 4:00-7:25 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
12:40-4:50-9:00 5:35-6:30-8:10-9:00 Black Panther: Wakanda 21100 Dulles Town Circle 11:10-3:10-7:00
ever (PG-13) CC: 2:45-5:35-8:45 Babylon (R) CC: 7:00 Dance With Somebody (PG-13)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: Forever (PG-13) 4:00-8:00 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Nabil El Gamil Dr. Tagmeel
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Whitney Houston: I Wanna The Fabelmans (PG-13) (PG) 1:20-4:20-7:00
4:05-7:20 12:15-6:50 4:15-7:15 Ray (2004) (PG-13) 6:45 13) 12:00-4:00 11:40-2:30-5:20-8:05
Dance With Somebody (PG-13) Dance With Somebody (PG-13) The Woman King (PG-13) 3:30
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Strange World (PG) CC: 3:20 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Black Panther: Wakanda Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
CC: 5:25 CC: 6:30 M3GAN (PG-13) 4:40-7:15 13) OC: 1:30
The Woman King (PG-13) Avatar: The Way of Water 3D M3GAN (PG-13) 12:10-3:00- The Menu (R) CC: 3:10-5:45-8:25 13) 3:00-6:10-7:10 Forever (PG-13) 3:50-8:15 13) OC: 1:30
M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 3:45- Avatar: The Way of Water 3D House Party (R) CC: 3:15-4:45- Babylon (R) 3:20 Whitney Houston: I Wanna M3GAN (PG-13) OC: 5:30
CC: 2:20 (PG-13) 4:10-7:30 4:00-7:20 (PG-13) 3:20-7:40
6:30-9:00 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) 6:00-7:20-8:45 Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (PG-13) A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
The Woman King (PG-13) Devotion (PG-13) CC: 6:15 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Xscape Theatres
The Fabelmans (PG-13) CC: (PG) 4:30-5:15-7:40 1:40-4:40-7:40 Plane (R) CC: 4:50 Dance With Somebody (PG-13) 12:20 OC: 6:50
CC: 2:30 House Party (R) 1:00-4:50-7:30 Brandywine 14 The Whale (R) CC: 3:10-6:00- 4:15-7:35 M3GAN (PG-13) 2:30-5:15-7:45 Regal Springfield Town Center
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: 2:10-8:15 Old Greenbelt Theatre
Plane (R) 1:25-4:15-7:10
7710 Matapeake Business Drive 8:50 The Fabelmans (PG-13) 7:20 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) 6859 Springfield Mall
Strange World (PG) CC: 3:45 129 Centerway
M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:15- The Whale (R) 1:15-4:20-7:15 Jurassic Park (PG-13) CC: Avatar: The Way of Water - An M3GAN (PG-13) 3:35-7:30 12:15-3:30-6:35 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
House Party (R) CC: 3:50-9:10 Avatar: The Way of Water Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 1:00-4:00-7:00 IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) Plane (R) 3:15-5:00-7:50 House Party (R) 2:00-4:45-7:30
7:15-8:15 (PG-13) 3:15 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- CC: 3:15-7:30 13) 11:30-3:50-8:00
Plane (R) CC: 3:05-6:05-9:05 (PG) 12:20-2:50-5:20-8:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Plane (R) 1:25-4:15-7:10
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: Corsage 7:15 13) CC: (!) 1:25-5:35-9:35 Black Panther: Wakanda For-
Broker (R) 5:40-8:40 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Fedora 6:30 The Whale (R) 12:30-3:20- ever (PG-13) 11:10-2:50-6:30
2:00-5:00-8:00 The Whale (R) 7:00 Regal Laurel Towne Centre Black Panther: Wakanda
The Metropolitan Opera: (PG-13) CC: 3:45-8:00 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D 6:05-8:50 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Fedora ENCORE 6:30 House Party (R) CC: 2:15- 14716 Baltimore Avenue Forever (PG-13) CC: 11:05-
5:05-7:35 Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG-13) 3:30-4:20-7:45 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Dance With Somebody (PG-13)
The Whale (R) CC: 2:35-8:45 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- 3:05-6:35-10:05 (PG) CC: 3:30-5:15-8:00 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG-13) 1:00-2:15-5:00-6:15-
The Menu (R) CC: 2:05-5:30 3899 Branch Avenue 2:40-9:20
Saint Omer (PG-13) 2:40 13) 12:40-4:50 Whitney Houston: I Wanna The Devil Conspiracy (R) CC: (PG) 3:45-4:30-6:30 9:00
Plane (R) CC: 2:15-5:00-7:45 Avatar: The Way of Water Black Panther: Wakanda For- Dance With Somebody (PG-13) 3:00-6:00-9:00 The Woman King (PG-13)
Skinamarink 6:15-9:10 (PG-13) 4:15 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 11:05-6:00
Corsage 4:15 ever (PG-13) 12:30-4:20-8:15 CC: 10:55-8:05 Plane (R) OC: 7:45 3:50-6:00; 7:00 (PG) 12:40-3:10-5:45-8:30
Avatar: The Way of Water - An The Whale (R) CC: 2:45-5:45-8:30 Whitney Houston: I Wanna M3GAN (PG-13) 12:20-1:20-
IMAX 3D Experience (PG-13) Whitney Houston: I Wanna The Woman King (PG-13) CC: Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Dance With Somebody (PG-13) Dance With Somebody (PG-13) 2:05-5:05 AMC Shirlington 7 Cinema Arts Theatre 3:30-4:30-6:10-7:10-9:00
CC: 4:00-8:15 1:00 2772 South Randolph St. 9650 Main St 13) OC: 8:00 A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
(PG) CC: 2:30-5:15-8:00 5:00-8:20 M3GAN (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:10-
Avatar: The Way of Water 3D M3GAN (PG-13) 2:05-4:35- Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- The Fabelmans (PG-13) 10:00- Regal Fairfax Towne Center 11:50-3:00-6:05-9:10
(PG-13) CC: 5:00-9:15 Skinamarink 4:45 The Woman King (PG-13) 1:20 1:50-4:20-6:50-9:20
7:05-8:15 4110 West Ox Road House Party (R) 12:00-3:10-
M3GAN (PG-13) 12:20-1:50- A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: 13) CC: 12:20-1:30-4:30-8:30 1:00-4:15-7:20
2:05-4:50; 7:35 House Party (R) 1:45-4:15-7:20 2:50-4:30-5:30-7:15-8:25 (!) 11:30-3:50-6:40-9:30 M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 12:30- Living (PG-13) 10:05-12:15- Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- 5:50-8:50
Plane (R) 2:00-4:30-7:00 13) 2:30-6:55 Plane (R) 11:20-2:00-4:50-7:40
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) House Party (R) CC: (!) 12:20- 5:30-8:00 2:40-4:55-7:15-9:25
Avatar: The Way of Water 3D 1:30-4:40-7:45 2:50-5:20-7:50-10:20 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: A Man Called Otto (PG-13) Black Panther: Wakanda For- The Metropolitan Opera:
13) CC: 2:30 7000 Arundel Mills Circle
(PG-13) 1:00-7:10 1:20-4:20-7:20 ever (PG-13) 12:20-4:00-7:30 Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30
House Party (R) 12:25-1:10- Plane (R) CC: (!) 11:20-2:00- 9:40-12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30
The Devil Conspiracy (R) CC: Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 3:00-4:15-5:50-7:00-8:30 Plane (R) CC: 2:00-4:50-7:30 Plane (R) 9:50-12:10-2:25- M3GAN (PG-13) 12:10-2:40- Avatar: The Way of Water 3D
3:15-9:15 13) XD: 12:20-4:30 4:50-7:20-9:50
(PG) 1:30-4:00-6:30 Plane (R) 12:40-3:30-6:20 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Broker (R) 1:00-4:00-7:10 4:40-7:10 5:20-8:00 (PG-13) 11:00-12:10-3:20-4:20-
Black Panther: Wakanda 7:30-8:30
The Devil Conspiracy (R) OC: Forever (PG-13) OC: 7:30 Regal Bowie Avatar: The Way of Water 3D (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:25-3:25-7:25 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Broker (R) 9:55-1:05-4:00-7:00 A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard (PG-13) 1:40-2:30-8:00 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG-13) CC: 3:00-7:00 Corsage 9:45-12:05-2:35 12:30-3:40-6:40 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
6:15 Whitney Houston: I Wanna (PG) 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:50
Black Panther: Wakanda For- The Metropolitan Opera: (PG) CC: 11:15-1:45-4:15- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish The Whale (R) 5:05-7:40 Plane (R) 1:30-4:20-7:10
Dance With Somebody (PG-13) (PG) CC: 12:10-2:50-5:20-7:50 The Metropolitan Opera:
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18
OC: 7:05 ever (PG-13) 1:05-4:00-7:25 Fedora ENCORE 6:30 6:55-9:25 Cinemark Centreville 12 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
9811 Washingtonian Center Whitney Houston: I Wanna Puss in Boots: The Last Wish The Devil Conspiracy (R) CC: (!) AMC Tysons Corner 16 6201 Multiplex Drive Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Private Watch Party 2:00
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Strange World (PG) 12:05 Dance With Somebody (PG-13) (PG) 12:20-3:10-6:10 11:00-2:20-5:10-7:40-10:10 7850e Tysons Corner Center Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Avatar: (PG-13)
The Way of Water 3D
11:50-3:50-5:00-7:50
Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
13) CC: 5:00-9:15 Kuttey 9:55 4:25 Regal Rockville Center M3GAN (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:50- Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- 13) OC: 8:40 13) 12:00-2:00-6:10
Black Panther: Wakanda For- The Woman King (PG-13) 199 East Montgomery Avenue 2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 13) CC: 12:50 Black Panther: Wakanda Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Black Panther: Wakanda For-
ever (PG-13) CC: 2:15-6:15-9:50 House Party (R) 1:15-4:15-
7:15-10:15 1:15-7:45 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- House Party (R) CC: (!) 11:40- Black Panther: Wakanda For- Forever (PG-13) OC: 6:50 (PG) 12:00-1:00-3:30-6:10 ever (PG-13) 12:30-4:10-7:45
Whitney Houston: I Wanna M3GAN (PG-13) 1:50-4:30-7:20 13) 1:30-5:50 2:10-4:40-7:10-9:40 ever (PG-13) CC: 1:15-4:50-8:25 M3GAN (PG-13) OC: 7:40 Nabil El Gamil Dr. Tagmeel Whitney Houston: I Wanna
M3GAN (PG-13) OC: 7:40 1:40-4:30-7:20
Dance With Somebody (PG-13) A Man Called Otto (PG-13) Black Panther: Wakanda Babylon (R) CC: 1:20 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) Dance With Somebody (PG-13)
Varisu (Tamil) 12:15-4:00-8:00 iPic Pike & Rose Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-7:40 Forever (PG-13) 12:30-4:10 11830 Grand Park Avenue Whitney Houston: I Wanna OC: 7:20
13) OC: 12:50
5:40-9:00
Kuttey 2:15 House Party (R) 1:00-2:00-3:50- Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (PG-13) House Party (R) OC: 7:00 The Woman King (PG-13)
OC: 6:50 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-
Thunivu 2:50-6:15-9:35 4:50-6:30-7:30 Dance With Somebody (PG-13) 13) 2:00-3:15-6:00-10:00-10:30 CC: 1:40 Varisu (Tamil) 12:00-8:20 Regal Fox & IMAX 11:05-2:25
CC: 7:10 Plane (R) 1:30-4:20-7:10 22875 Brambleton Plaza The Fabelmans (PG-13) 12:15
The Fabelmans (PG-13) Plane (R) OC: 7:00 12:50-7:50 Jurassic Park (PG-13) (!) 6:30 The Fabelmans (PG-13) CC: 8:30 Thunivu 1:30
CC: M3GAN (PG-13) 12:10-2:40-
3:50 The Menu (R) OC: 6:30 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D The Woman King (PG-13) 4:30 Black Panther: Wakanda For- M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 1:00-3:40- Avatar: The Way of Water 3D Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- 3:40-5:20-6:20-7:50-8:50
Avatar: The Way of Water 3D (PG-13) 1:40-6:00 M3GAN (PG-13) 2:00-4:50-7:30 ever (PG-13) 2:45-6:45-10:45 5:00-6:15-7:40-8:50 (PG-13) 1:40-5:50 13) 1:40-6:00
M3GAN (PG-13) CC: 1:45-3:30- Black Panther: Wakanda A Man Called Otto (PG-13)
(PG-13) XD: 12:35-4:45-8:55 The Metropolitan Opera: A Man Called Otto (PG-13) M3GAN (PG-13) 3:00-7:45-10:45 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: Plane (R) OC: 7:10 11:50-3:00-6:00-9:10
Waltair Veerayya (Telugu) Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 1:50-5:00-8:20 A Man Called Otto (PG-13) (!) 2:05-5:10-8:15 Waltair Veerayya (Telugu) Forever (PG-13) 1:10
A Man Called Otto (PG-13) CC: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish House Party (R) 1:40-4:20-7:10 House Party (R) CC: 12:55- 1:00-4:40-8:10 Whitney Houston: I Wanna House Party (R) 12:20-3:20-
1:30-3:00-6:30-9:30 XD: 8:40 4:15-7:30-11:00 6:30-9:20
Veera Simha Reddy (NBK107) (PG) 1:20-4:45-7:40 Plane (R) 12:55-3:50-6:40 House Party (R) (!) 4:00-7:00- 3:30-8:40 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Dance With Somebody (PG-13)
House Party (R) CC: 2:45-5:15- The Menu (R) 8:00 Plane (R) CC: 1:35-4:30-7:30 13) 12:20-4:30 11:20AM Plane (R) 11:10-1:50-4:30-
12:05-4:00-7:50 Regal Cinemas Majestic 10:15 7:20-9:40
7:45-10:15 Black Panther: Wakanda For- Dhamaka (Telugu) (2022-II)
Plane (R) CC: 1:45-7:15-10:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Stadium 20 & IMAX Holy Spider 2:10-5:40-8:30 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Broker (R) 1:30-4:40-7:50 Avatar: The Way of Water 3D
Fedora ENCORE 1:00 900 Ellsworth Drive The Metropolitan Opera: (PG) 3:15-6:15-9:15 The Menu (R) CC: 1:05-5:35 ever (PG-13) 12:15-3:10-9:40 4:50-8:20
Holy Spider 1:00-5:45 The Metropolitan Opera: M3GAN (PG-13) 1:15-2:20-3:55- M3GAN (PG-13) 11:40-2:20- (PG-13) 11:00-3:10-7:30
The Whale (R) OC: 7:35 Avatar: The Way of Water (PG- Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 Plane (R) (!) 3:30-6:30-9:45 The Metropolitan Opera:
The Whale (R) CC: 1:15-4:15- Black Panther: Wakanda 13) 2:40-5:20-7:00-9:30 The Whale (R) 1:20-4:40-7:40 Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30 5:00-10:20 5:10-8:00
Fedora ENCORE 1:00-6:30
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ K42
♥ AK742
♦ 54
♣ 432
WEST EAST
♠ 873 ♠ 6
♥ 10 8 ♥ QJ96
♦ Q J 10 9 7 ♦ 8632 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ KJ5 ♣ 10 9 8 7
SOUTH (D)
♠ A Q J 10 9 5
♥ 53
♦ AK
♣ AQ6

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♠ Pass 2 ♥ Pass
3 ♠ Pass 4 ♠ Pass
6 ♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ Q CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

“M y partner is a patient
listener,” a club play-
er said to me. “He always lets
me explain my losing plays. I
think it’s because he knows
his turn will come.”
My friend was declarer at
today’s six spades. He won
the diamond opening lead,
took the A-Q of trumps and
next cashed the A-K of hearts
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
and ruffed a heart high.
“When West showed
out,” South told me, “I led a
trump to dummy’s king and
finessed with the queen of
clubs. West won, and I lost
another club at the end.
“I explained to my part-
ner that if hearts had split
3-3, I would have made an
overtrick. And he might have
held a high trump spot I
LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
could have used as a dummy
entry. He listened impas-
sively — and said I’d booted
the slam.”
South indeed needed an
extra dummy entry; to get
it, he ducks a heart at Trick
Three. If East wins and leads
a club, South takes the ace,
leads a heart to the ace and
ruffs a heart high. He draws
trumps ending in dummy and CHRIS BROWNE
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
takes the king and the good
fifth heart for 12 tricks.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠K42♥AK742
♦54♣432
Your partner opens one
diamond, you respond one
heart and he bids one spade.
The opponents pass. What
do you say?
ANSWER: To pass would be BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
timid — partner might have
enough extra strength to
make a game — but no good
call is available. A rebid of
two hearts would suggest a
longer suit, and a bid of 1NT
with no sign of a club trick is
clearly flawed. Try a raise to
two spades as the least evil.
— Frank Stewart
©2023, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JANUARY 18
You have dignity in a
practical, conservative
way. However, in the
next moment, you
are wildly impulsive! You are
always generous, kindhearted
and helpful. This year is finally
the time for you to receive
promotions, awards and
acknowledgment for what
you do. You might assume a
leadership role.
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
Moon Alert: There are no
restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today.
The Moon is in Sagittarius.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Parents and authority figures
will be pretty intense today.
Therefore, this is not the day
to decide to challenge them.
If you do, you will encounter
more than you bargained for.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
This is a poor day for
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL arguments and disputes about
politics, religion or racial
issues; nevertheless, you will
probably be drawn into them!
Try to avoid this if you can,
because people will be intense
and convinced that they’re
right and that you will be better
off if you agree with them. Oy!
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Don’t get embroiled in
discussions about shared
property, inheritances or
insurance disputes, because
you might have to contend
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK with someone who is trying
to exert unreasonable power
over you.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Keep things light today.
(If you can.) Avoid intense
discussions with partners
and close friends, because
people can be quite pushy
today. In fact, avoid dangerous
areas and any possibility of a
criminal element.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
You might be determined
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN to introduce reforms and
improvements at your job
today. However, don’t be pushy
with others. (There are none so
deaf as those who are wearing
headphones.) Likewise, you
might be super determined to
improve your health today.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
This is a terrible day for
romantic arguments, because
they will get out of hand,
possibly dangerously so. This
is because people are intense
and passionate today. They’re
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK convinced they are right and
others should agree with them
-- come hell or high water!
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Avoid intense family
discussions and arguments
today, because they won’t
be pretty. Someone will
try to push their views on
others, and they might be
overwhelming and aggressive.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Discussions with others will be
intense, even overwhelming
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT today. You might have to
contend with someone who is
trying to exert power over you,
which will force you to defend
your right to do things the way
you want to do them.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Avoid disputes about money
and possessions today,
because they could be nasty.
On the other hand, you might
see useful ways to use money
or something you own to make
improvements somewhere or
to help a third party.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Be careful who you hang
out with today. Avoid people
who are aggressive, angry
or potentially criminal. This
is the kind of day that brings
the worst out in people. In
fact, everyone will be intense
and a bit aggressive, so be
discriminating. Be smart.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Avoid dangerous areas today
or places where there are few
people, because this is the
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS kind of day where the criminal
element might be felt, even in
a threatening way.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You might encounter a friend
who seems to be coming on
strong today. Or perhaps this is
someone in a group situation.
If so, this is a poor day to
contradict or cross swords with
someone.
— Georgia Nicols
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Every Lunar New Year boasts a new zodiac A mix of sunshine and clouds with To read more stories about
animal. The animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, highs in the upper 50s and a bit of notable authors and books,
dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, breezy winds throughout the day. take a look at our online
dog and pig. 2023 is the year of the rabbit. ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY LIU, 6, ARLINGTON Readers’ Corner section.

vitamin C, but they also hold special TO D AY’S N E WS

meaning during the new year. Uy says
that citrus fruit “represents a sweet life.”
Since fresh fruit was traditionally diffi-
cult to find in wintertime, it became a
rare gift representing prosperity and the
richness in life. You can buy mandarin
oranges, a variety that got its name for its
popularity in China, at most grocery
stores.
Sticky rice cakes
ISTOCK Called nian gao (pronounced nyen-
gao) in Mandarin, this sweet treat is
made from glutinous rice flour and sugar.
While this food is eaten year round, SCOTT ELMQUIST

according to Uy, it represents “an in- Meg Medina, an award-winning

crease in prosperity” during the new year
and raising your status. You can make
sticky rice cakes at home, buy them from
an Asian grocery store or bakery, or order
them online.
Dumplings
Dumplings make a lovely dinner for
meat eaters and vegetarians alike. The
variety of fillings (often meat, egg, tofu or
ADI WEDA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY vegetables) means you can enjoy plenty
of flavors wrapped in delicious dough.
TATAN SYUFLANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS The dumpling shape, a very full half-
moon, represents wealth. “They are sup-
author, is the Library of Congress’s
eighth youth ambassador.
Author Meg Medina
named ambassador
for kids’ literature
Meg Medina, author of the award-
winning Merci Suárez series, was
named the Library of Congress’s Na-
tional Ambassador for Young People’s

Four foods to enjoy

posed to symbolize a full purse,” Uy says. Literature on Wednesday.
So while you are eating dinner, you can The two-year position involves trav-
show off your full purses. Dumplings are eling across the country to encourage
sold frozen at most grocery stores or can kids to read, talk about books and

for Lunar New Year

be ordered fresh from Chinese restau-
rants. You can also make dumplings if
you are up to the challenge. Check out the
recipe at America’s Test Kitchen Kids.
BY O LIVIA M C C ORMACK red envelopes, or enjoying fireworks and Noodles
share stories. To do this, Medina plans
to tap into her experience listening to
stories as a girl, growing up in the
Queens section of New York City.
Medina’s theme for her ambassa-
dorship is “Cuéntame: Let’s Talk

Y
ou could use Lunar New Year as a
reason to clean your room, as it is
tradition to clean your space
before the start of the new year. If
that idea does not seem celebratory, you
can mark the year of the rabbit with four
tasty food items that are typically en-
joyed at this time.
The holiday, which begins Sunday,
lasts 15 days and is determined by the
lunar calendar rather than the solar
calendar used in the Western world.
Celebrated by nearly 20 percent of people
around the world, the holiday may in-
clude having dinner with family, gifting
other performances.
“Lunar New Year is about rebirth and a
fresh start to the new year, just like the
Western New Year,” says David Uy, execu-
tive director of the Chinese American
Museum Foundation in Washington. “So
the foods follow a track of celebrating
family, goodwill and love.”
Foods and their meanings are central
to celebrating Lunar New Year. Here are
four food items connected to the holiday,
their meanings and where you may be
able to find them.
Oranges (or any citrus fruits)
Oranges are tasty and great sources of
SHURAN HUANG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM: People shop
for Lunar New Year decorations at a
Chinese market in Indonesia. Oranges
have come to symbolize prosperity and
are one of the foods eaten to celebrate
the holiday. Sticky rice cakes made of
flour and sugar are a sweet treat that
represents raising your status in life.
Dumplings, which can be a delicious
meal for meat eaters and vegetarians
alike, signify wealth and are made to
be shaped like purses full of money.
While it can be frustrating to eat a
noodle that feels like it will never end,
that is exactly what you should eat to
celebrate Lunar New Year. Long noodles,
often marked in stores as Asian wheat
noodles or Chinese egg noodles, such as
yi mein, are said to represent a long life
during the new year. You can find these
noodles online or find them in Asian
grocery stores and some chain grocery
stores.
While you enjoy one or more of the
above, wish friends and family “xinián
kuàilè!” (pronounced shin-nyen kwai-le).
That’s Mandarin for “new year happi-
ness!”
Books.” The Spanish expression
“Cuéntame” is like saying “What’s go-
ing on?” but it translates literally to
“story me.”
“It reminded me about how kids
think about books and the stories they
tell each other,” Medina said. She
wants to help kids think about reading
not as a school subject but “as a way
that they connect with each other and
a way that they find their passion.”
Medina also wants to help them
choose books and talk more about
books. “Up the book love,” she said.
“That is the goal.”
— Christina Barron

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Caps can’t
convert in
deflating
loss to Wild
WILD 4,
CAPITALS 2
BY S AMANTHA P ELL
Peter Laviolette could not fault
his team’s effort nor point to a
lack of chances for its 4-2 loss to
the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday
night. The Washington Capitals’
coach was pleased with the time
his team spent in the offensive
zone and its numerous scoring
opportunities that, if they were
just an inch to either side, could
have changed the outcome.
But Washington never found
that tying goal, and an empty-net-
ter in the final minute sealed the
Capitals’ loss at Capital One Are-
na.
“There’s a lot that we did good
for 60 minutes,” Laviolette said.
“It’s one of those games where I
can’t fault the process and I can’t
fault the effort. . . . I thought our
guys showed up and played hard
and did the right things. Defen-
sively, I thought we were pretty
good, then the goals are the
goals.”
Playing its second game in as
many nights after erasing a three-
goal deficit to claim a 4-3 over-
time win Monday at the New York
Islanders, Washington could not
solve Wild goaltender Filip
Gustavsson (34 saves) in the final
period despite putting 14 shots on
net. The Capitals’ best opportu-
nity came with just under four
minutes left, but Gustavsson de-
nied a shot by Marcus Johansson
from the goal line when he kicked
the puck away with the heel of his
right skate.
“I don’t know how it didn’t go
in, but that’s how it goes some-
times, I guess,” Johansson said.
Washington (24-17-6) had
failed to capitalize on two power-
play chances early in the third;
that unit is 0 for 13 over the past
six games. The Capitals, who
suffered their fourth regulation
loss in their past six games, begin
a three-game trip Thursday at
Arizona before visiting Vegas on
Saturday and defending cham-
pion Colorado on Tuesday.
Washington had the lead in the
second period, but the Wild (25-
14-4) scored three times — on
nearly identical shots — to take
command.
“They took my eyes away on
those goals, but I thought we
again played well enough to win,”
goaltender Charlie Lindgren said.
“So this one is kind of like the last
game I played against Nashville
— it obviously just hurts.”
After Dylan Strome put
Washington ahead 2-1 with a
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Capitals at Coyotes
Tomorrow, 9 p.m., NBCSW
ANALYSIS
A thorny o≠season storyline
is back for Robles and Nats
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
In August, after Victor Robles
wore a clown nose to clap back at
the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Mad-
ison Bumgarner from the visitors’
dugout at Chase Field, then or-
dered a bundle of Robles clown
nose T-shirts for the clubhouse,
the Washington Nationals’ coach-
ing staff asked him to walk back to
his locker — from his pregame
stretches on the third base line —
to change out of the shirt and into
what everyone else was wearing.
“Do you notice that all of your
teammates are in red and you’re in
a shirt with your face on it?” one
coach asked. Robles, 25, didn’t
answer. He just disappeared
down the tunnel and reemerged a
few minutes later in the correct
clothes.
Publicly, Manager Dave Marti-
nez had immediately chastised
Robles for sporting the clown
nose, saying that was “not who we
are.” (The Nationals were 32-65 at
the time, though the joke did earn
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Archbishop Carroll’s Nyckoles Harbor, a top football
recruit, starts his indoor track season in a hurry. D5
After playing 23 seasons and winning seven Super Bowls, quarterback Tom Brady enters another offseason filled with uncertainty.
Diminishing returns
Brady can retire on his terms, but lingering will soon feel like loitering
The feeble pass,
which Tom Brady
intended to throw
out of bounds,
landed softly in
the hands of
Jerry Dallas Cowboys
Brewer
safety Jayron
Kearse. It was one
strange, punt-like interception. In
a trophy-encased career, Brady
usually doesn’t let such an awful
mistake touch him, but here he
was Monday night, overwhelmed
and unprotected.
Brady slapped the side of his
helmet, looked down and
screamed. It was early in the
second quarter, and Dallas was
just beginning to separate from
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The
Cowboys led 6-0, and Brady was
On the basketball court, grieving and healing together
Reminders of players’ late teammates are everywhere at three schools in Northern Virginia
Robles an Instagram shout-out
from LeBron James.) And private-
ly, the manager was unhappy with
the T-shirts, which Robles and
many of his teammates wore for
weeks.
Robles’s relationship with the
team has been fraying since his
offense fell off a cliff after the 2019
World Series run. The past week
brought another example. On Fri-
day, after Robles and the Nation-
als couldn’t agree on a salary for
2023, the sides again exchanged
figures for a possible arbitration
hearing. In March, Robles
thought he should make $2.1 mil-
lion while the club stayed at
$1.6 million. This year, Robles
wants $2.6 million, according to
two people familiar with the situa-
tion, while Washington filed at
$2.3 million.
Exchanging figures does not
guarantee an arbitration hearing
in February. Robles and the Na-
tionals eventually settled ahead of
their scheduled hearing last year,
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
responding the way Brady
responds, directing a 14-play
drive that put his team within five
yards of the end zone. That’s
when, on second and goal, the
disaster occurred. Brady took a
shotgun snap, faked a handoff,
stepped back and pump-faked as
two Cowboys ran after him. He
panicked and tossed the football
toward the back of the end zone.
It didn’t sail out of trouble. It
floated right into danger. In a
31-14 playoff loss, Brady and the
Buccaneers wouldn’t threaten
Dallas again.
Brady really doesn’t know how
to quit. He couldn’t on that
critical play. And he still isn’t
inclined to abandon a gilded
football life in which he is now
chasing after things he had
TENNIS
Novak Djokovic gets a warm welcome — and a win in
straight sets — as he returns to the Australian Open. D7
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NFL playoffs: Divisional round
Saturday
Jaguars at Chiefs, 4:30 p.m., NBC
Giants at Eagles, 8:15 p.m., Fox
Sunday
Bengals at Bills, 3 p.m., CBS
Cowboys at 49ers, 6:30 p.m., Fox
already caught.
It’s his prerogative. After 23
seasons of historic feats, after
retiring for 40 days last offseason
and then deciding he has
“unfinished business,” Brady has
earned the right to exit the game
his way. He might have to get used
to causing the audience to wince
instead of dropping jaws, but
there’s nothing wrong with riding
the train to the end of the line.
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M2 D
Bezos not
a bidder
— at least
not yet
Amazon founder sits out
initial round of offers
to buy Commanders
BY L IZ C LARKE, M ARK M ASKE
AND N ICKI J HABVALA
Several groups submitted bids
to purchase the Washington Com-
manders before a late December
target requested by the invest-
ment bank handling the sale, but
none reached the $7 billion mark
that owner Daniel Snyder seeks
for the team, according to a per-
son familiar with the process.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sat
out this stage of the bidding, ac-
cording to multiple people famil-
iar with the process, potentially
opening the door to other buyers
interested in acquiring the fran-
chise.
Some of those familiar with the
process, speaking on the condi-
tion of anonymity because of the
confidential nature of the bid-
ding, said it’s unclear whether
Bezos’s inaction reflects ambiva-
lence over the price Snyder seeks,
represents other misgivings
about making a bid or is a ploy
allowing him to ultimately outbid
the top offer.
Given Bezos’s vast net worth,
many concede the team would be
his for the taking. But given the
uncertainty surrounding his in-
tentions, several groups of pro-
spective buyers are vying to be
next in line if Bezos, who owns
The Washington Post, opts out or
sets a hard cap on what he’s will-
ing to pay, people with ties to the
process have said.
If Bezos does not intensify his
efforts, those who stand to benefit
could include some of the bidders
who last year tried but failed to
purchase the Denver Broncos.
The finalists for the Broncos have
been expected to be contenders
for the Commanders, a person
familiar with the process said.
Those include media entrepre-
neur Byron Allen; Clearlake Capi-
tal co-founders Behdad Eghbali
and Jose E. Feliciano, who previ-
ously attempted to purchase a
minority stake in the Command-
ers from Snyder’s former limited
partners; Josh Harris, co-founder
of Apollo Global Management
and owner of the NBA’s Philadel-
phia 76ers and the NHL’s New
Jersey Devils; and Todd L. Boehly,
CEO of Eldridge Industries, chair-
man of Chelsea Football Club and
part-owner of MLB’s Los Angeles
Dodgers, the NBA’s Los Angeles
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offensive coordinator search. D3
BY S PENCER N USBAUM
That night in November looked
no different from any of the other
hundreds Braylon Meade spent
with his two best friends. He
played table tennis with James
McIntyre, then owed him McDon-
ald’s after losing soundly. He
watched Michigan football high-
lights with Brian Weiser as the
teammates planned for a double
date that weekend. He laughed a
lot, just as he always did.
The only perceptible difference
was the promise of the next few
months. Boys’ basketball tryouts
at Washington-Liberty had just
finished, and this season was
more than just a last dance for the
team’s eight seniors, who had
played together since middle
school. It would be the first year
Meade would join his friends in
the heart of the rotation.
An excited Meade was already
crowning the Generals as Liberty
District champions. For him,
years of clapping in faces and
goading rivals into technical fouls
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DI GES T
‘Dub Nation’ finally makes return to White House
COLLEGES season, with Klopp’s team having
exited the League Cup and G LYNN A . H ILL celebrate their 2020 champion-
Police: Miles supplied plunged to ninth place in the
BY
ship because of scheduling con-
gun in fatal shooting league — 19 points behind leader Vice President Harris wel- flicts and coronavirus protocols.)
Arsenal. . . . comed her hometown Golden The Toronto Raptors won the
Investigators said that a A man was charged with State Warriors back to the White championship in 2019 and chose
University of Alabama basketball assaulting Arsenal goalkeeper House on Tuesday to celebrate not to visit Trump. The Warriors
player charged with capital Aaron Ramsdale after the team’s their 2022 NBA championship. won in 2017 and 2018 and
murder provided the gun used in Premier League game against To open the news conference, skipped White House trips in
the fatal shooting but that Tottenham. Harris addressed the storms that favor of other activities.
another man fired the weapon. The Metropolitan Police have ravaged communities in Following the 2017 title, after
Investigators wrote in a court charged Joseph Watts, 35, with California before she transi- Curry and his teammates said
document that Darius Miles assault by beating, Britain’s Press tioned to an introduction of they wouldn’t go to the White
admitted to providing the Association reported. President Biden and the War- House and Trump later uninvit-
handgun immediately before the Ramsdale appeared to be riors, who visited the White ed them, the Warriors instead
shooting. Another man is accused kicked in the back by a spectator House for the first time since visited the National Museum of
of firing the gun and killing a after picking up a water bottle meeting with President Barack African American History and
young woman near the from behind one of the goals after Obama in February 2016. Culture with local schoolchil-
university’s campus, according to Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Tottenham “As a very proud daughter of dren in February 2018. After the
court documents filed in on Sunday. . . . Oakland, California, it gives me Warriors’ 2018 championship,
Tuscaloosa. Real Sociedad extended its immense personal pride as the DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST
they instead visited Obama at
Miles, 21, a junior reserve impressive winning streak by vice president of the United President Biden and Vice President Harris greeted Stephen Curry his Washington office in January
forward from Washington, and defeating Mallorca, 1-0, to States to say, ‘Dub Nation is in and the Warriors, who twice skipped President Donald Trump. 2019.
Michael Lynn Davis, 20, of advance to the quarterfinals of the house!’ ” she said. “My family During the Trump adminis-
Charles County are charged with the Spanish Copa del Rey. and my Bay Area friends are its roots in Philadelphia and the spoke about gun violence pre- tration, some championship
capital murder in the shooting Robert Navarro scored in the among the many who are gath- president’s origins in Scranton, vention. teams from other leagues did not
death of 23-year-old Jamea fifth minute to give Sociedad its ered here to congratulate our Pa. He presented the president The Warriors were the second make White House visits; that
Harris. The shooting occurred eighth straight win in all Golden State Warriors, the 2022 and vice president with jerseys, NBA championship team to visit includes the North Carolina
early Sunday on the Strip, a competitions. Half of those NBA champions.” giving Biden a No. 46 and Harris the White House since President men’s and the South Carolina
student-oriented business district victories came in the Spanish During his speech, Biden a No. 1. Donald Trump left office in Jan- women’s basketball teams in
of bars and restaurants near the league, where it sits in third place. highlighted the team’s star play- Earlier Tuesday, White House uary 2021. That November, the 2017, both of which cited sched-
Tuscaloosa campus. Harris was It will be playing in the last eight ers, its front-office personnel press secretary Karine Jean- Milwaukee Bucks visited four uling conflicts. In some cases,
sitting in the passenger seat of a of the Copa for the second and Coach Steve Kerr. He com- Pierre welcomed Kerr and Curry months after winning the title; teams from sports whose cham-
car when she was struck by a consecutive season. . . . mended Kerr and the players for to the lectern ahead of the daily they were the first NBA champi- pions were invited by previous
bullet, investigators wrote in the Spanish referees are calling for their support of voting rights press briefing, where Curry ons to do so since November administrations were not invited
court document. VAR to be boosted by semi- and stances against racism and thanked Biden for the adminis- 2016, when the Cleveland Cava- by Trump’s; in others, some play-
Tuscaloosa police Capt. Jack automated offside technology gun violence. Curry later spoke tration’s efforts to free WNBA liers celebrated with Obama. ers skipped the White House
Kennedy declined to say Tuesday after a video-review mistake in a of the franchise’s connection to star Brittney Griner from a Rus- (The Los Angeles Lakers did not visit as their teammates made
where Miles got the gun. As of league match between Cádiz and Biden, drawing a line between sian prison. He said they also visit Biden at the White House to the trip.
Jan. 1, Alabama stopped requiring Elche.
a permit to carry a concealed The referee’s technical
handgun. committee made a request to the
Miles and Davis remained in Spanish league in a statement NBA ROUNDUP
the Tuscaloosa County Jail, and released by the country’s soccer
Kennedy said a probable cause
hearing could take 30 to 60 days
in a capital murder case.
federation. The move came after
the video assistant referee failed
to spot an Elche player clearly in
San Antonio beats Brooklyn to snap losing streak
The University of Alabama said an offside position in the buildup
in a statement that Miles is no to Elche’s 81st-minute equalizer ble of 10 points, 10 rebounds and WIZARDS’ NEXT THREE No foul shots were awarded.
longer on the basketball team. . . . at Cádiz on Monday. SPURS 106, 11 assists for Brooklyn in the Lopez scored 15 of his 19 points
Georgia football player Devin The 1-1 draw could prove to be NETS 98 opener of a five-game trip. T.J. at New York Knicks in the third quarter before being
Willock was not wearing a seat significant with both clubs in the Warren added 19 points, and Clax- ejected.
belt when he was ejected from the relegation zone. . . . ton had 15 points, 11 rebounds, Today 7:30 NBCSW The Bucks enter a three-day
vehicle in a weekend crash that Just three days after being A SSOCIATED P RESS four blocks and four assists. break having gone 2-2 without
killed him and a recruiting staff appointed as coach, Davide A flare-up midway through the vs. Orlando Magic Antetokounmpo. The two-time
member, police said. Ballardini steered his side to a Keldon Johnson had a career- second quarter between Markieff Saturday 7 NBCSW MVP and NBA’s fourth-leading
A police report released listed huge upset as 10-man Cremonese high 36 points and 11 rebounds as Morris and Sochan momentarily scorer has left knee soreness.
excessive speed on a road with a eliminated Napoli from the the San Antonio Spurs snapped a sparked the Nets. Sochan held at Dallas Mavericks l NUGGETS 122, TRAIL
40-mph limit as one of the Italian Cup. five-game skid with a 106-98 win three fingers up near Morris’s face BLAZERS 113: Nikola Jokic had
primary causes of the crash. Cremonese won a penalty over the visiting Brooklyn Nets on after draining a three-pointer Tuesday 8:30 NBCSW 36 points as part of his 13th triple-
The wreck occurred at 2:45 shootout after playing most of Tuesday night. that gave San Antonio a 39-34 double of the season to offset a
a.m. Sunday in Athens, less than extra time with 10 men after the Jeremy Sochan added 16 points lead with 5:20 remaining in the Radio: WTEM (980 AM) 44-point performance from Da-
two miles from the university match finished 2-2. It will face for San Antonio. half. mian Lillard, and Denver beat
campus. . . . Roma in the next round. Brooklyn lost its third straight. The Brooklyn veteran verbally annis Antetokounmpo for the Portland for its 14th straight
The University of Michigan The Nets have dropped every let the rookie know that wasn’t fourth consecutive game, shot 19 home victory.
placed offensive co-coordinator MISC. game since Kevin Durant suffered appreciated and then delivered a for 39 from three-point range. Jokic, who was 13 of 14 from the
and quarterbacks coach Matt Motorsports star Travis a sprained medial collateral liga- shoulder into Sochan’s chest on Fred Van Vleet led Toronto field, finished with 12 rebounds
Weiss on leave, an athletic Pastrana said he will make his ment in his right knee. Kyrie Ir- the ensuing possession. The play with 39 points. Gary Trent Jr. and 10 assists. The Nuggets im-
department spokesman long-coveted attempt to race in ving was a late scratch because of resulted in an offensive and tech- added 28 points, and Pascal proved to 13-0 this season when
confirmed. the Daytona 500 this year in an a sore right calf. nical foul on Morris, as well as a Siakam had 23. the two-time reigning NBA MVP
ESPN reported the school’s entry fielded by 23XI Racing. The Johnson was 11 for 26 from the Flagrant 1 foul on Sochan, who Play got chippy and action was records a triple-double.
police department is No. 67 Toyota will be a third entry field, including two key baskets in pulled Morris to the court on the halted at 6:40 of the fourth quar- The Nuggets were without
investigating a report of for the NASCAR team owned by the fourth quarter. He hit a three- play. ter with Milwaukee leading 113- Coach Michael Malone, who
computer access crimes from last Michael Jordan and Denny pointer following a missed three Brooklyn went on a 15-3 run 110 because of an altercation in- missed the game after entering
month at Schembechler Hall, Hamlin and give Pastrana the by Seth Curry, giving the Spurs an following the dust-up, erasing yet volving several players near the the league’s health and safety pro-
where Coach Jim Harbaugh and chance to fulfill his career dream. 87-82 lead. One possession after another sluggish start. Bucks’ basket. tocols.
his staff have offices and the Pastrana, a decorated X Games Nic Claxton blocked his dunk at- l BUCKS 130, RAPTORS 122: Milwaukee’s Brook Lopez was Michael Porter Jr. had 23
Wolverines practice. star, has won titles in supercross, tempt, Johnson threw down a Jrue Holiday scored a season- whistled for two technical fouls points for Denver, which im-
Weiss said in a statement to motocross, freestyle motocross, one-handed dunk for an 89-82 high 37 points, and Milwaukee and ejected. Technicals were also proved to 20-3 at home.
ESPN that he is fully cooperating rally racing and, most recently, lead. beat visiting Toronto. called on Toronto’s O.G. Anunoby The Trail Blazers dropped their
with investigators. offshore powerboat racing. . . . Ben Simmons had a triple-dou- The Bucks, playing without Gi- and Jamaal Magloire on the play. eighth straight road game.
Olympic ice dancers Kaitlin
SOCCER Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker
Liverpool kept alive its FA Cup withdrew from the U.S. figure
title defense and earned an skating championships because COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP
immediate chance to avenge one of a string of injuries over the past
of its most humiliating English
Premier League losses.
A 1-0 win at Wolverhampton in
18 months that they said led to
challenges with their mental
health.
Wildcats slay No. 2 Jayhawks to end skid in rivalry
a third-round replay set up a trip Hawayek and Baker, who
in the round of 32 to Brighton, placed 11th at last year’s Beijing The Demon Deacons (14-5, 6-2)
which routed Liverpool, 3-0, on Games, were third at each of the KANSAS STATE 83, won their fourth straight game
Saturday in a loss Reds Manager past four U.S. championships. KANSAS 82 (OT) and played from in front the entire
Jürgen Klopp ranked as the This year’s begin next week in San way after the game’s opening min-
worst in his 22-year career. Jose. . . . ute.
Harvey Elliott scored the The Boston Red Sox traded A SSOCIATED P RESS The Tigers (15-4, 7-1) twice got
winner in the 13th minute right-hander Connor Seabold to as close as six in the second half,
Tuesday, running from inside his the Colorado Rockies for a player Keyontae Johnson scored 24 the last time coming on Hunter
own half and unleashing a shot to be named or cash. Seabold, 26, points, including the go-ahead al- Tyson’s putback dunk while draw-
from 30 meters that sailed over was designated for assignment ley-oop dunk with 25 seconds left ing a foul for a three-point play
Wolves goalkeeper José Sá and last week to clear room on the 40- in overtime, and the No. 13 Kansas with 2:07 left.
into the middle of the net. man roster following the signing State men knocked off second- l VCU 83, MASSACHUSETTS
The FA Cup probably of Corey Kluber to a one-year, ranked Kansas, 83-82, on Tuesday 55: Jalen DeLoach scored 19 points
represents Liverpool’s only $10 million contract. night in Manhattan, Kan., to snap to help propel the Rams to a rout of
chance of a domestic trophy this — From news services a seven-game losing streak in the the Minutemen in Richmond.
series. DeLoach had 12 rebounds and
Desi Sills also scored 24 points three blocks for the Rams (14-5, 5-1
TELEVISION AND RADIO and Nae’Qwan Tomlin had 15 Atlantic 10). Jayden Nunn went
NBA points and 10 rebounds for the 3 for 3 from beyond the arc and
7:30 p.m. Washington at New York » NBC Sports Washington, WTEM (980 AM) Wildcats (16-2, 5-1 Big 12), who CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS scored 13 points.
7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Dallas » ESPN hung tough after blowing a 14- Keyontae Johnson, left, scored 24 points, including the go-ahead Matt Cross finished with 15
10 p.m. Minnesota at Denver » ESPN point first-half lead and then dunk with 25 seconds left in overtime, to lift No. 13 Kansas State. points for Massachusetts (11-7, 2-4).
squandering a chance to win the
NHL game in regulation. Jaylen Forbes scored 23 and a second-half scoring drought that No. 5 Huskies trounce Pirates
7:30 p.m. Boston at New York Islanders » TNT Jalen Wilson tried to take over Jalen Cook added 15 points for the lasted nearly 41/2 minutes. Iowa Aubrey Griffin and Dorka Ju-
10 p.m. Dallas at San Jose » TNT
in overtime for Kansas, converting Green Wave. State responded with an 8-0 run to hasz each scored 22 points and
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL a three-point play, knocking down l ALABAMA 78, VANDER- seize control. Aaliyah Edwards added 21 as the
6:30 p.m. Connecticut at Seton Hall » Fox Sports 1 a three-pointer and making a pair BILT 66: Freshman Brandon Mil- Christian Bishop led Texas with fifth-ranked Connecticut women
7 p.m. Saint Louis at Loyola Chicago » CBS Sports Network of free throws for an 82-80 lead ler scored 30 points as the fourth- 12 points. routed Seton Hall, 103-58, in
7 p.m. Ohio State at Nebraska » Big Ten Network with just over a minute to go. But ranked Crimson Tide upended the l TENNESSEE 70, MISSIS- South Orange, N.J.
7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Louisville » ACC Network after Johnson made a free throw at Commodores in Nashville for its SIPPI STATE 59: Zakai Zeigler The shorthanded Huskies (16-2,
7 p.m. Auburn at LSU » ESPN2 the other end, Wilson missed a seventh straight victory two days had 24 points and the No. 9 Volun- 9-0 Big East) once again only
7 p.m. Virginia Tech at Virginia » ESPNU, WSBN (630 AM), WJFK (106.7 FM) deep three-pointer as the shot after a teammate was charged teers made 8 of 9 three-pointers dressed eight players because of
7 p.m. Florida at Texas A&M » SEC Network
clock expired to give the Wildcats with capital murder. in the second half to pull away injuries.
8:30 p.m. Xavier at DePaul » Fox Sports 1
9 p.m. Providence at Marquette » CBS Sports Network
another chance. Reserve junior forward Darius from the Bulldogs in Starkville, Seton Hall’s star guard, Lauran
9 p.m. Oklahoma at Oklahoma State » ESPNU After a timeout, Markquis Now- Miles was charged Sunday, a day Miss. Park-Lane, was subbed out with
9 p.m. Arkansas at Missouri » SEC Network ell threw a lob that Johnson after Alabama already had an- Tennessee (15-3, 5-1 SEC) shot 2:04 remaining in the first half
10 p.m. Oregon at California » Pac-12 Network slammed down for an 83-82 ad- nounced he would miss the rest of 2 of 15 from beyond the arc in the after picking up her third foul with
10:30 p.m. San Diego State at Colorado State » Fox Sports 1 vantage with 25 seconds to go. the season with an ankle injury. first half as Mississippi State her team trailing 41-20.
Wilson finished with a career- The Crimson Tide (16-2, 6-0 clamped down, but it was a differ- Park-Lane, the diminutive
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
high 38 points for the Jayhawks SEC) rebounded well against the ent story in the final 20 minutes. guard who leads the team in scor-
6 p.m. Davidson at VCU » MASN
(16-2, 5-1). team that beat it in the conference Mississippi State (12-6, 1-5) im- ing with 20.1 points per game, was
GOLF l HOUSTON 80, TULANE tournament in March. proved on its first half total as well, just 1 of 10 in the first half. She
2:30 a.m. DP World Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship, first round » Golf Channel 60: Marcus Sasser highlighted a Vanderbilt (9-9, 2-3) has lost scoring 10 more points in the finished with nine points and six
(Thursday) 23-point performance with seven three of its last four — all against frame. The pace played out of the rebounds.
three-pointers, and the top- ranked opponents. Bulldogs’ realm, however, as de- Seton Hall (13-6, 6-3) was led by
SOCCER
ranked Cougars overwhelmed the l IOWA STATE 78, TEXAS 67: fensive-minded Mississippi State Jala Jordan, who scored 19 points.
11 a.m. African Nations Championship, Group B: Ivory Coast Green Wave in New Orleans for Jaren Holmes scored 21 points to couldn’t keep up with the hot- l VILLANOVA 76, XAVIER
vs. Democratic Republic of Congo » beIN Sports
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ANALYSIS
Rivera begins o≠ensive coordinator interviews
Shurmur is the first
candidate on a varied list
to talk to Commanders
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
Three years into their rebuild
under Coach Ron Rivera, the
Washington Commanders are
more in flux than ever.
Finding a new starting quarter-
back has become a nearly annual
task, and this offseason won’t
stray from tradition. The team
also needs a new offensive coordi-
nator and play caller after Scott
Turner was fired a week ago, and
the expected change in ownership
could complicate the hiring
process.
This week, Rivera is expected to
meet with team owner Daniel Sny-
der to set the offseason budget and
gain a clearer picture of the team’s
direction — for at least the near
future. Rivera and his staff have
already formed a list of coordina-
tor candidates and on Tuesday
began the interview process with
Pat Shurmur, the former coach of
the New York Giants.
According to multiple people
with knowledge of Washington’s
plans, the team has also requested
to interview Darrell Bevell, the
Miami Dolphins’ quarterbacks
coach and passing game coordina-
tor; Eric Studesville, Miami’s as-
sistant head coach and running
backs coach; and Charles London,
the Atlanta Falcons’ quarterbacks
coach. Washington will also inter-
view its quarterbacks coach.
The list could change, especial-
ly as other candidates come avail-
able, and the timetable may de-
pend on the postseason, should
Washington eye someone whose
team is still in contention. Finding
a play caller with a record of devel-
oping young quarterbacks is a pri-
ority, but the Commanders may
not get their top choice. The po-
tential ownership change could
lead some candidates to view this
job as a lame-duck position; new
owners may want to start anew
with the staff after next season.
Here’s a closer look at some of
the known candidates, as well as
others the team could consider.
Pat Shurmur
The 23-year NFL coaching vet-
eran worked with Rivera for the
Philadelphia Eagles from 1999 to
2003 and was among the offensive
coordinator candidates for Rive-
ra’s staff with the Carolina Pan-
thers in 2013.
Shurmur, 57, would offer famil-
iarity and experience. Rivera
knows him well; he has 34 seasons
of coaching experience, including
time in the college ranks at Michi-
gan and Stanford; and he has a
long record of working with both
young quarterbacks and veterans.
Shurmur was Donovan
Bezos is not among initial
bidders for Commanders
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Lakers and the WNBA’s Los Ange-
les Sparks.
Boehly is believed to have been
strongly interested in the Com-
manders during the bidding proc-
ess, but it is not clear whether he
remains active in that pursuit. It is
also unclear whether Boehly and
Clearlake Capital’s co-founders
joined forces on a bid or have been
pursuing the team on separate
tracks. A spokesperson for Boehly
has not responded to repeated
requests for comment.
Boehly, 49, a 1991 graduate of
Bethesda’s Landon School, led the
consortium that won the hotly
contested auction to buy Chelsea
for roughly $3.1 billion and com-
mitted more than $2 billion for a
stadium and other team spend-
ing. The deal was largely funded
by Clearlake Capital.
Spokespeople for Harris, who
grew up in Chevy Chase and at-
tended the Field School in North-
west Washington, repeatedly have
declined to comment, as have
spokespeople for Eghbali and Fe-
liciano.
Mat Ishbia, president and CEO
of United Wholesale Mortgage,
expressed interest in the Com-
manders in November. But he no
longer is pursuing the team, a
spokesman for Ishbia said last
month, after he reached an agree-
ment to buy the NBA’s Phoenix
Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix
Mercury. That deal valued the
Suns and Mercury at $4 billion
and included all of previous own-
er Robert Sarver’s interest in the
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Sam Howell, who made one start as a rookie, will be part of an unsettled quarterbacks room next season for Washington’s new play caller.
McNabb’s quarterbacks coach
when the Eagles went to Super
Bowl XXXIX and was their offen-
sive coordinator during Nick
Foles’s breakout season in 2013.
He was the Minnesota Vikings’
offensive coordinator when Case
Keenum led them to the NFC title
game after defeating the New Or-
leans Saints with the “Minneapo-
lis Miracle” in January 2018.
That season landed Shurmur
NFL assistant coach of the year
honors and set him up for the
Giants’ job. After two seasons
working with first-round quarter-
back Daniel Jones, Shurmur was
fired and landed with the Denver
Broncos, where he lasted two sea-
sons as play caller.
A person with knowledge of the
Commanders’ thinking said the
team isn’t favoring one particular
offensive system. But Shurmur,
like many of the team’s known
candidates, is rooted in the West
Coast offense, dating from his
days on Andy Reid’s staff in Phila-
delphia.
“I’ve coached forever from that
book,” he said in 2020. “I think
when you look at offenses, though
— we are all fond of the plays that
work, but we as coaches are always
trying to do the things our players
do best.”
Denver hired Shurmur in part
because of his penchant for big
plays, a fact Washington’s staff
surely eyed. The Giants had 143
plays of 20 or more yards from
2018 to 2019, the sixth most in the
league in that span.
In his 13 seasons as a head coach
or coordinator, Shurmur’s teams
have gone 81-121 (.401), and only
three times have his offenses
cracked the top 10 in scoring.
teams and a portion of the interest
of Sarver’s ownership partners.
The Pat Bowlen Trust sold the
Broncos in June to a group led by
Walmart heir Rob Walton. That
$4.65 billion purchase is the rec-
ord sale price for an NFL fran-
chise. Forbes estimated in August
that the Commanders are worth
$5.6 billion.
Bezos has an estimated net
worth of $121.3 billion, according
to Forbes, which ranks him as the
world’s fourth-wealthiest person.
Multiple NFL owners expressed
interest in having Bezos pursue a
franchise. He also was linked to
the Seattle Seahawks, who prob-
ably will be sold in the coming
years by the trust of late owner
Paul Allen.
Bezos’s pursuit of an NFL team
could become complicated if he
chooses to return to Amazon as its
CEO, a role he ceded to Andy Jassy
in July 2021. Several business
publications, including Fortune,
reported this month that is a pos-
sibility, based on analyst fore-
casts. NFL team owners and
league executives could view that
as a conflict, given that Amazon
pays the NFL roughly $1 billion
annually to carry the league’s
“Thursday Night Football” pack-
age. As the owner of an NFL
franchise, Bezos would have ac-
cess to privileged financial infor-
mation relevant to future broad-
cast negotiations.
In November, a person familiar
with the situation said Bezos was
interested in the Commanders
and might bid with music mogul
Jay-Z as an investor in his group.
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Darrell Bevell
Bevell, 53, began his NFL coach-
ing career with the Green Bay
Packers as an assistant and later
the quarterbacks coach from 2003
to 2005. He went on to become an
offensive coordinator for the Vi-
kings (2006-10), Seattle Seahawks
(2011-17), Detroit Lions (2019-20)
and Jacksonville Jaguars (2021).
In Jacksonville, he was Urban
Meyer’s play caller and took over
as interim coach. In 2022, Bevell
was named quarterbacks coach
and passing game coordinator on
Mike McDaniel’s Dolphins staff;
the team runs a version of the West
Coast offense.
Bevell has worked with top
quarterbacks, including Brett
Favre, Russell Willson (whom he
scouted at Wisconsin), Matthew
Stafford, Trevor Lawrence and Tua
Tagovailoa.
As Wilson’s offensive coordina-
tor from 2011 to 2017, Bevell
helped the Seahawks go 72-39-1,
claim two NFC titles (2013 and
2014) and win Super Bowl XLVIII.
Charles London
A former Duke running back,
London, 48, has been the Falcons’
quarterbacks coach for the past
two seasons.
He started his NFL coaching
career as a quality control coach
for the Chicago Bears, spent a year
(2010) as a pro scout for the Eagles,
then returned to coaching as an
offensive assistant for the Tennes-
see Titans (2011).
His bigger break came in 2012,
when Bill O’Brien hired him as
Penn State’s running backs coach.
London followed O’Brien to the
Houston Texans and later re-
turned to Chicago to coach the
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who is believed to have an interest in
buying Daniel Snyder’s team, sat out the opening stage of bidding.
Bezos declined to comment on his
potential bid for the Commanders
at the National Portrait Gallery’s
2022 Portrait of a Nation Gala that
month.
“I can’t talk about it,” Bezos said
then. During a televised interview
with CNN around the same time
in which he was seated alongside
his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez,
Bezos said: “There’s not much I
can say about that right now. But
she does like football.”
It is not clear when the bidding
process will be completed. Some
of those connected to the process
have rejected characterizations
that the late December target for
bids requested by the investment
bank was a firm deadline, saying
the process is more fluid. That
makes it difficult for other bidders
to know whether Bezos is in-
volved or whether he still could
become more engaged. Front Of-
fice Sports reported Bezos’s lack
of a bid Sunday.
The Commanders have said
Snyder and his wife, Tanya, the
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Bears’ backs.
London lacks experience as a
play caller and coordinator, but
his knowledge of the running
game aligns with Washington’s
professed hope of becoming a run-
first offense.
Eric Studesville
Studesville, 55, has spent 22 of
his 26 seasons coaching in the NFL
at the running backs position. His
first stint was alongside Rivera,
who was a defensive quality coach
for the Bears when Studesville was
their offensive quality control
coach from 1997 to 2000. Studes-
ville coached running backs for
the Giants, Buffalo Bills and Bron-
cos over a 16-year span.
In 2018, Studesville headed to
Miami in the same role, and he
and George Godsey were co-offen-
sive coordinators in 2021.
Studesville is well-regarded in
the league and especially among
players. And though he also has
roots primarily in the West Coast
offense — having worked with
play callers and coaches that in-
clude Sean Payton, Gary Kubiak
and McDaniel — he has worked in
multiple systems, including the
Air Coryell that served as the foun-
dation for Turner’s offense.
Ken Zampese
The Commanders will consider
their quarterbacks coach for the
position and, like Shurmur, Ken
Zampese, 55, boasts two impor-
tant qualities: familiarity and ex-
perience. He has been in Washing-
ton for the entirety of Rivera’s
tenure and spent last season work-
ing with Howell.
Zampese’s résumé includes six
NFL teams, and he has worked
PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
team’s co-CEO, hired BofA Securi-
ties, a division of Bank of America,
to “consider potential transac-
tions” for the franchise. The Com-
manders have not specified
whether the Snyders intend to sell
all or part of the team. Four people
familiar with the process said re-
cently that they believe a full sale
is the most probable outcome. All
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because of the level of
secrecy surrounding the delibera-
tions.
In a public filing in November
related to the incorporation proc-
ess with the registrar of compa-
nies for England and Wales, the
Snyders listed England as the
country or state of which they are
“usually” a resident. Daniel Sny-
der did not attend the Command-
ers’ season-ending game Jan. 8
against the Dallas Cowboys at
FedEx Field, according to a person
with knowledge of the matter.
Any sale of all or part of the
team would have to be ratified by
at least three-quarters of the
KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
primarily as an assistant and
quarterbacks coach.
He spent 13 seasons as the Cin-
cinnati Bengals’ quarterbacks
coach before he was elevated to
coordinator for 2016 and part of
2017.
Other names to watch
Pep Hamilton: The Texans’
quarterbacks coach was previous-
ly the Indianapolis Colts’ offensive
coordinator (2013-15) and has 14
years of NFL coaching experience.
Hamilton, 48, also coached Com-
manders receivers coach Drew
Terrell at Stanford and worked
with Commanders senior offen-
sive assistant Jim Hostler with the
San Francisco 49ers.
Joe Lombardi: Lombardi, 51,
was recently fired from the Los
Angeles Chargers’ offensive coor-
dinator job. He was previously the
Lions’ play caller (2014-15) when
Martin Mayhew was their general
manager.
Curtis Modkins: The Vikings
running backs coach and run
game coordinator was previously
the Bills’ offensive coordinator
(2010-12) and was the running
backs coach in Detroit when May-
hew was GM (2013-15). Modkins,
52, interviewed for the Eagles’ OC
job in 2021.
Byron Leftwich: The D.C. na-
tive and former Woodson High
quarterback has been Tom Brady’s
offensive coordinator the past
three seasons with the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers. Should Leftwich, 43,
and the Buccaneers part ways fol-
lowing their loss to the Dallas
Cowboys on Monday in the first
round of the playoffs, a return
home with the Commanders
could be intriguing.
NFL’s other team owners, giving
them a measure of control over
Snyder’s choice of a buyer.
The NFL is conducting its sec-
ond investigation of Snyder and
the Commanders, a probe being
overseen by attorney Mary Jo
White. Indianapolis Colts owner
Jim Irsay said in October that he
and fellow owners should give
serious consideration to voting to
remove Snyder from ownership.
That also would require the ap-
proval of at least three-quarters of
the owners. Multiple owners told
The Post in September that they
believed serious consideration
would be given to attempting to
oust Snyder from the ownership
ranks, either by convincing him to
sell or by voting to remove him.
The House Committee on Over-
sight and Reform wrote last
month in its final report on its
Democratic-led investigation of
the team’s workplace that Snyder
“obstructed” the committee’s in-
vestigation and that he “permit-
ted and participated” in “trou-
bling conduct” in the team’s work-
place. The report said Snyder gave
evasive and “misleading” testimo-
ny to the committee in July.
The office of Karl A. Racine,
then the Democratic attorney
general of D.C., filed two civil
lawsuits last year against the
Commanders. Maryland Attorney
General Brian E. Frosh (D) fined
the team $250,000 through a set-
tlement for improperly withhold-
ing security deposits from ticket
holders. Investigators for the U.S.
attorney’s office for the Eastern
District of Virginia have inter-
viewed witnesses about allega-
tions of financial improprieties
involving the team, according to
multiple people familiar with the
situation. The office of Virginia
Attorney General Jason S. Mi-
yares (R) also is investigating.
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NFL NOTES
Gage ‘great’
a day after
taking hit
vs. Dallas
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Buccaneers wide receiver Rus-
sell Gage had movement in all of
his extremities after suffering a
neck injury and concussion in
Tampa Bay’s first-round playoff
game against Dallas, the team an-
nounced Tuesday.
The Buccaneers said in a state-
ment that Gage remained hospi-
talized overnight and would un-
dergo more testing a day after
being taken off the field by stretch-
er in a sobering scene that came
just two weeks after Buffalo Bills
safety Damar Hamlin collapsed
and needed to be resuscitated dur-
ing a prime-time game.
“I appreciate all of the texts,
calls, thoughts and prayers you all
have expressed towards my family
and I,” Gage wrote on Twitter. “I
just wanted to let you all know that
I’m doing great and in great spir-
its! Thank you!”
Gage was injured in the fourth
quarter Monday night when he
stumbled on a route, went to the
ground, couldn’t make the catch
and took a hard shot to the neck
from Donovan Wilson. He ap-
peared to try to get up but couldn’t
and slammed his hand into the
ground in frustration.
Players from both teams took a
knee and prayed while medical
personnel attended to Gage. Tom
Brady, who threw the pass to Gage,
stood near the medical staff before
the game resumed.
“Definitely hope he’s doing well.
He was moving, so that’s a good
sign,” teammate Lavonte David
said after the game.
l CHARGERS: Brandon Staley
will be back for a third season as
coach in Los Angeles.
The same can’t be said for some
of his offensive staff.
The team announced that of-
fensive coordinator Joe Lombardi
and quarterbacks coach Shane
Day were fired after two years.
Staley has a 19-16 record, in-
cluding the playoffs, in his two
seasons. He led the Chargers to
their first playoff appearance
since 2018 with a 10-7 regular sea-
son mark.
The Chargers fell to the Jack-
sonville Jaguars, 31-30, in Satur-
day’s AFC first-round game after
blowing the third-largest lead in
postseason history.
Los Angeles was up 27-0 late in
the second quarter before the Jag-
uars rallied.
Criticism about Lombardi’s
play-calling increased throughout
the season. The Chargers were
ranked ninth in total offense but
20th in scrimmage yards per play
along with the third-worst rush-
ing attack in the NFL.
l BROWNS: Jim Schwartz has
never been afraid of big challeng-
es. He’s tackling a new one in
Cleveland.
Schwartz, who took a winless
Detroit team to the postseason in
three seasons, was hired as the
Browns’ defensive coordinator, a
person familiar with the decision
told the Associated Press.
Schwartz spent the past two
seasons as a defensive adviser for
Tennessee. The 56-year-old was
one of four candidates to meet
with the Browns, who went 7-10
this season and had defensive is-
sues starting in the opener.
Cleveland’s search for a coordi-
nator began last week when Coach
Kevin Stefanski fired Joe Woods
after three seasons.
l TITANS: A person familiar
with the decision says Tennessee is
hiring San Francisco director of
player personnel Ran Carthon as
its new general manager.
The search committee headed
by controlling owner Amy Adams
Strunk picked Carthon, whose
first interview was Friday.
Carthon will be the first minori-
ty general manager for the origi-
nal American Football League
franchise founded in 1960.
l MISC.: The NFL directed the
Kansas City Chiefs and Bills to
begin selling tickets for a possible
AFC championship game in Atlan-
ta on Jan. 29.
The game would be played at
Mercedes-Benz Stadium if both
teams win at home in the division-
al round this weekend. If either
loses, the game would be hosted at
the higher-seeded team.
The top-seeded Chiefs are host-
ing the Jaguars; the No. 2 seed
Bills are facing the reigning AFC
champion Cincinnati Bengals.
The NFL mandated a possible
neutral site for the conference title
in response to a Jan. 2 game be-
tween the Bengals and Bills being
canceled after Hamlin collapsed
on the field.
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After loss, Brady walks o≠ toward ... what? He doesn’t say.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion is a free agent this offseason and turns 46 in August. He might leave the Buccaneers — or the game itself.
BY M ARK M ASKE
tampa — As Tom Brady jogged
off the field Monday night at
Raymond James Stadium, he lift-
ed the hat he was wearing and
waved it in acknowledgment of
the fans around the tunnel lead-
ing to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’
locker room. He stopped by the
edge of the field and spoke to his
parents and sister, who were
waiting for him there. Then he
left the field, catching up to walk
alongside Buccaneers wide re-
ceiver Julio Jones toward the
locker room — and toward the
rest of his life, whatever that may
mean.
The legendary quarterback
may have said his farewell to the
Buccaneers late Monday night.
He just might have said his good-
bye, for the second time, to the
NFL. If he knew, he wasn’t saying
so.
“I’m going to go home and get a
good night’s sleep — as good as I
can tonight,” Brady said to a
roomful of reporters following
the Buccaneers’ 31-14 loss to the
Dallas Cowboys in a first-round
NFC playoff game.
Brady was asked what his
decision-making process would
entail and how long it might take.
He was having none of it, at least
not in the immediate aftermath
of one of his least commanding
postseason performances.
“It’s been a lot of focus on this
game,” Brady said. “It’ll just be
one day at a time, truly.”
Brady is eligible for free agency
this offseason. He turns 46 in
August. He must make some deci-
sions, one year after he retired
and then un-retired six weeks
later.
“I think there’s lessons for all of
us every year, every year of our
life,” he said. “So you always want
every year to end great. Unfortu-
nately in sports, it doesn’t work
that way. There’s 32 teams in the
league. And they’re all very com-
petitive. Only one of them is really
going to feel good at the end of the
year. So as many teams that won
[this weekend], there’s going to
be seven of the eight that don’t
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Tom Brady said of making a decision about the 2023 season: “It’s been a lot of focus on this game. It’ll just be one day at a time, truly.”
feel great at the end of the year.
That’s why it feels good when
you’re on top and you win it all.”
If this was the end for Brady
with the Buccaneers — or if it was
Brady’s final NFL game — it was
an inglorious conclusion. He and
the Buccaneers were over-
matched. He had 66 passing at-
tempts. He threw for 351 yards
and two touchdowns. But most of
the good was cosmetic, accom-
plished long after the game was
decided. The Buccaneers didn’t
score until the final play of the
third quarter. Brady threw the
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first red-zone interception of his
Buccaneers tenure, a puzzling
toss into the end zone while he
was trying to throw the ball away.
“They played pretty good,” Bra-
dy said of the Cowboys. “They
played good defensively and put a
lot of pressure on us. We just
couldn’t make enough plays. So it
was kind of typical of the way we
played all year, just inefficient in
the passing game and not very
good in the running game. So it’s
hard to beat good teams like that.”
Brady has lined up a lucrative
deal to be an NFL analyst for Fox
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once he’s done playing. There are
likely to be NFL teams willing to
sign him if he wants to keep
playing. Some associates believe
Brady probably will play next
season, though they caution they
don’t consider that certain. Any
decision about a new team could
depend, they say, on family con-
siderations and proximity to his
kids.
“We’ll sit down and have a
conversation,” Buccaneers Coach
Todd Bowles said. “And we’ll talk
about it at that time. It’s not
anything publicly that needs to be
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Great can go out his way,
even if it makes us wince
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The concern shouldn’t be that
Brady will tarnish his legacy. We
say that without thinking
because, selfishly, we want to
remember every icon in perfect
form. But Willie Mays didn’t ruin
his reputation when he ended his
career with the New York Mets.
The memories of Michael
Jordan’s greatness aren’t
diminished because he came out
of retirement to play for the
Washington Wizards. Jerry Rice
ending his career with the Seattle
Seahawks is more trivia question
than black eye.
In time, when the rough
endings are folded into their
immense volumes of work, the
all-time greats are remembered
as they should be. And as painful
as it can be to watch, there’s
something weirdly reassuring
about watching Father Time
come for them and realizing the
game has passed them by.
Transience drives sports; the next
big thing is always due to arrive.
Sometimes, it helps to see every
phase of this cycle.
Of his interception, Brady said:
“I didn’t, obviously, get enough on
it. It certainly didn’t help our
cause.”
Of his future, the 45-year-old
said, “It’ll just be one day at a
time, truly.”
Reporters wanted to know if
this ending felt significant for
Brady, who is set to be a free
agent.
“It just feels like the end of the
season,” he said.
His actions suggest he wants to
keep playing but not for Tampa
Bay. Before ending his postgame
media session, he thanked the
media and expressed his love for
the Buccaneers. It felt like a
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said at this time.”
Brady has spent three seasons
with the Buccaneers after 20 with
the New England Patriots. He is
now two seasons removed from
winning his seventh Super Bowl
title in his first season with
Tampa Bay.
“You never rebuild,” Bowles
said. “You always reload. You
know you’ve got a chance to win
every year. We’ve got to tweak
some things from a schematic
standpoint all the way around. . . .
And obviously no one ever comes
back with every player on the
out a way to upgrade the creaky
parts of their roster, change might
be good for both parties.
The talent surrounding Brady
means more than it ever has.
Three years ago, he left the New
England Patriots after 20 seasons
and six Super Bowls, picked a
franchise that he thought was a
quarterback away and then led
Tampa Bay to a championship in
his first season. Brady was the
superstar the Bucs needed, but
they had everything he needed:
strong defense, a full complement
of receiving options and brilliant
offensive minds who thought
about the game a little differently
than him. Brady and former
coach Bruce Arians butted heads
during their two seasons together,
but the combination worked.
Tampa Bay isn’t the same well-
rounded team it was during that
Super Bowl run. The offensive
line was a mess this season. The
Bucs couldn’t — and sometimes
wouldn’t — run the ball. Brady
couldn’t throw downfield. He still
managed to amass 4,694 passing
yards, but that was 622 yards less
than his NFL-leading 2021 total.
His touchdowns dropped from
43 to 25. His passer rating dipped
from 102.1 to 90.7.
On Monday, against the
Cowboys’ aggressive defense and
merciless pass rush, Brady
produced one of the most
deceptive 300-yard games you’ll
see. He attempted a career-high
66 passes. He completed just 35 of
them. He finished with 351 yards
and two touchdowns, but the
offense did most of the damage
after Dallas took a 24-0 lead. It
would be insulting to other one-
dimensional offenses to call
Tampa Bay, which ran the ball
only 12 times, one-dimensional.
Much like during the regular
season, the Buccaneers could rely
team. So we’ll have some new
faces in here. That’s just part of
the game.”
Brady endured the first losing
season of his career. His personal
life was scrutinized in media cov-
erage of his divorce. There were
moments of late-game magic, but
they came only occasionally. Bra-
dy said Monday that it is “always
tough” to have a season end. But
in this case, the conclusion was
decisive.
“We didn’t earn it,” he said.
“[The Cowboys] did. I think that
there’s a part of football where I
feel like it’s sometimes you get
lucky. But most of the time, the
team that earns it wins. And they
played good all year. They played
good tonight. They played well as
a team. They were very coordinat-
ed. They played well on offense.
They played well defensively.
They missed some kicks on spe-
cial teams. But we just couldn’t do
enough on offense to put any
pressure on them.”
If there were any clues as to the
next steps, they were more subtle
than overt. Brady’s mother was
emotional as she walked off the
field following the postgame con-
versation. Brady was asked later
whether his emotions at the end
of this game and this season were
anything out of the ordinary.
“It just feels like the end of the
season,” he said, then immedi-
ately followed that response with
an address that sounded some-
thing like a farewell speech —
perhaps to the Buccaneers more
so than the NFL.
“I just want to say thank you,
guys, for everything,” Brady told
the gathered media members. “I
really appreciate all your efforts. I
know it’s hard for you guys, too.
It’s hard for us players to make it
through. You guys have got a
tough job. I appreciate all that
you guys do to cover us. . . . I love
this organization. It’s a great
place to be. I thank everybody for
welcoming me. All you regulars,
I’m just very grateful for the
respect. And I hope I gave the
same thing back to you guys.”
Then he exited, toward an
uncertain football future.
on just half of a dimension from
their passing game: throw short
and pray.
“It’s hard to beat good teams
like that,” Brady said.
Before the interception, Brady
hadn’t committed a red-zone
turnover since 2019. In that span,
he had attempted 410 passes,
thrown for 86 touchdowns and
used his old-man trot to run for
seven scores. But he looked like a
skittish rookie at the moment
when his team was desperate for
him to flash his seven-ring
greatness.
When pondering Brady, we
need to redefine what “done”
means in professional sports. He’s
messing with the clock, but even
at his advanced age, Brady is
unlikely to lose it all next season if
he returns. The majority of what
he has left may be safe for two
more seasons. He still has a good
arm. He can still be accurate. But
as this season emphasized, all the
conditions must be right.
He’s a pick-and-choose star
now. He needs to economize his
excellence. He can be special, just
not with the same regularity as
before. That has been the case
since he arrived in Tampa after a
lackluster final season with the
Patriots. He hasn’t managed to do
amazing things with the Bucs
because he turned back the clock.
They complemented him
properly, and he thrived. In any
professional sport, you can’t ask a
post-prime player to carry a team,
not if you’re trying to win big. To
maximize aging talent, the table
must be set correctly.
Tampa Bay asked Brady to
cover too many flaws this season.
It was too heavy of a burden,
especially with his high-profile
personal life creating headlines.
He didn’t play with much joy. For
the first time, he endured a losing
season.
Now, Brady has a familiar
decision to make. Keep playing?
And where? Regardless of his
choice, his Hall of Fame bust will
look the same. But the longer this
awkward farewell continues,
unfinished business will start to
seem an awful lot like loitering.
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NHL ROUNDUP
Hayes’s hat trick gets Philadelphia back on track In season debut, Harbor
FLYERS 5,
DUCKS 2
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Kevin Hayes had his first ca-
reer hat trick, Rasmus Ristolain-
en and Morgan Frost also scored
and the host Philadelphia Flyers
rebounded from their worst loss
of the season with a 5-2 win over
the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday
night.
The Flyers lost, 6-0, at Boston
in an afternoon game a day earli-
er that proved nothing more than
a speed bump in their recent
modest run of success. Philadel-
phia still only has 19 wins, but it
has won four of five. The Flyers
are 8-2 since an overtime win
Dec. 29 at San Jose and play hard
for Coach John Tortorella.
Hayes, selected to the NHL
All-Star Game, made up for a
turnover that led to a missed
Anaheim breakaway when he
scored his 11th goal of the season
off a Ducks giveaway in the first.
Dylan Strome battles Brandon Duhaime for possession in the first period. Strome later scored to give the Capitals a 2-1 lead in the second.
Late bounces don’t go the Capitals’ way
CAPITALS FROM D1
top-notch, top-shelf redirection
of a pass from Martin Fehervary
at 5:05 of the second period,
Minnesota defenseman Jonas
Brodin tied it at 13:12 with a shot
from the right side that beat the
heavily screened Lindgren (18
saves). The goal came on the
Wild’s eighth shot on net.
The Wild, which hadn’t played
since Saturday, grabbed a 3-2 lead
when defenseman Jared Spur-
geon scored his second goal of the
period with 1:45 left — on a shot
from the right point that
Lindgren again was unable to see
because of the traffic in front of
him. Spurgeon had scored a simi-
lar goal 50 seconds into the peri-
od to tie it at 1 on the Wild’s fourth
shot on goal.
Minnesota’s Joel Eriksson Ek
hit the empty net to end it at
19:06 of the third.
Fehervary had opened the
scoring with 1:03 left in the first
period by converting a give-and-
go with captain Alex Ovechkin. It
was his fourth goal of the season
and just the second time in the
past eight games that Washing-
ton scored first.
Before all of that, Laviolette
shuffled his lineup again, bring-
ing center Lars Eller and winger
ANALYSIS
Robles, Nats’ front o∞ce
can’t get on same page
NATIONALS FROM D1
landing on a $1.65 million salary
— just slightly above the team’s
initial number. But of the Nation-
als’ eight arbitration-eligible play-
ers, only Robles didn’t strike an
agreement Friday, which is all the
more notable because of how the
past few years have gone.
The team is unhappy with the
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clocks nation’s best time
Hayes scored again in the third
for a 4-1 lead, and his empty-nett-
er in the final seconds made it 5-2
and sent hats soaring onto the
ice.
Samuel Ersson made 25 saves
for the Flyers.
After the game, Flyers defense-
man Ivan Provorov cited his Rus-
sian Orthodox religion as the
reason he did not participate in
pregame warmups when the
team wore Pride-themed jerseys
and used sticks wrapped in rain-
bow Pride tape.
The 26-year-old Provorov boy-
cotted the pregame skate with his
teammates as the Flyers celebrat-
ed their annual Pride night in
celebration and support of the
LGBTQ+ community.
“I respect everybody’s choices,”
Provorov said after the game. “My
choice is to stay true to myself
and my religion. That’s all I’m
going to say.”
l CANADIENS 4, JETS 1: Ev-
genii Dadonov scored twice and
Samuel Montembeault made 24
saves to help host Montreal beat
Winnipeg.
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Nicolas Aube-Kubel back into the
fray. Eller was a healthy scratch
Monday; he replaced Nic Dowd,
who was injured in the first
period against the Islanders and
did not return. Aube-Kubel had
been a healthy scratch for the
previous four games. Winger An-
thony Mantha was pushed out of
the lineup, a healthy scratch for
the third time in the past five
games.
Laviolette called scratching
Mantha a “coach’s decision.”
He also switched up his line
combinations: Center Evgeny
Kuznetsov was dropped to the
fourth line. Aube-Kubel was the
first-line right wing, and Conor
Sheary dropped to the third with
Eller and T.J. Oshie.
player’s performance — and in
some cases, how he has comport-
ed himself as its longest-tenured
member after Stephen Strasburg.
The player, in turn, does not agree
with the team’s evaluation of him.
None of it feels like a good jump-
ing-off point for a needed bounce-
back season.
“Well, he’s at a point where
you’re not a prospect anymore,
Mike Hoffman and Josh An-
derson also scored for Montreal.
Justin Barron, Christian Dvorak
and Kirby Dach each had two
assists.
Barron played against brother
Morgan for the first time in the
NHL.
Kyle Connor scored his 200th
NHL goal, connecting on a power
play early in the second period to
open the scoring for Winnipeg.
Connor Hellebuyck made 24
saves for the Jets.
l MAPLE LEAFS 5, PAN-
THERS 4 (OT): William Nyland-
er scored his second goal of the
game at 1:53 of overtime to give
host Toronto the victory over
Florida.
Mitch Marner added two as-
sists to break Darryl Sittler’s 1977-
78 Maple Leafs home points
streak record at 19 games.
Aleksander Barkov had a goal
and an assist for Florida.
l PREDATORS 2, BLUE
JACKETS 1: Kevin Lankinen
made 39 saves as host Nashville
beat Columbus.
Cody Glass and Yakov Trenin
Wild 4, Capitals 2
MINNESOTA ............................ 0 3 1 — 4 most among Washington’s for-
WASHINGTON ......................... 1 1 0 — 2
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Washington, Fehervary 4 (Ovechkin, van
Riemsdyk), 18:57.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Minnesota, Spurgeon 6, 0:50. 3, Washington,
Strome 9 (Fehervary, Ovechkin), 5:05. 4, Minnesota,
Brodin 1 (Dewar, Dumba), 13:12. 5, Minnesota, Spur-
geon 7 (Dewar, Reaves), 18:15.
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 6, Minnesota, Eriksson Ek 15 (Gaudreau), 19:06
(en).
SHOTS ON GOAL
MINNESOTA ............................ 3 14 5 — 22
WASHINGTON ....................... 13 9 14 — 36
Power-play opportunities: Minnesota 0 of 2; Washing-
ton 0 of 3. Goalies: Minnesota, Gustavsson 11-6-1 (36
shots-34 saves). Washington, Lindgren 11-6-2 (21-18).
A: 18,573 (18,277). T: 2:24.
Laviolette said he was trying to
even out the lines against a physi-
cal opponent and did not view
Kuznetsov’s slide to the fourth
line as a demotion.
“It was just four lines,” he said.
“We wanted to make sure playing
last night that we came back and
we had speed on every line, we
had physicality.”
Here’s what else to know about
the Capitals’ loss:
Dropped
Regardless of Laviolette’s in-
tentions, Kuznetsov’s move to the
fourth line was a surprise. The
Russian center was held off the
scoresheet in 18 minutes 15 sec-
you’re a big leaguer and you have
to . . . ,” Mike Rizzo said at the
general managers meetings in No-
vember, his point trailing off
there. “This is a performance busi-
ness, and you have to perform.”
Once one of the sport’s top pros-
pects, Robles has a .291 on-base
percentage and a .306 slugging
percentage since the start of the
2020 season. In those 965 plate
appearances, his adjusted on-
base-plus-slugging percentage —
referred to as OPS+, a stat normal-
ized across the majors with ball-
park factors accounted for — is 31
points below average. Last season,
he ranked in the first percentile in
average exit velocity, the eighth
percentile in barrel percentage
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scored for Nashville, winner of
back-to-back home games.
Gustav Nyquist scored and
Daniil Tarasov made 26 saves for
Columbus, loser of five of six.
l BLACKHAWKS 4, SABRES
3 (OT): Seth Jones tied it with 56
seconds left in regulation and
scored again 2:24 into overtime
to lift host Chicago past Buffalo.
Philipp Kurashev had a goal
and two assists for Chicago.
Buffalo lost for the fifth time in
six games.
l COYOTES 4, RED WINGS
3 (SO): In Tempe, Nick Schmaltz
and Nick Bjugstad scored in the
shootout for host Arizona, and
Detroit missed its two shots
against Connor Ingram.
Bjugstad had a goal and an
assist in regulation, and Lawson
Crouse had three assists.
l OILERS 5, KRAKEN 2:
Zach Hyman had a goal and two
assists to lead host Edmonton
past Seattle.
Jack Campbell made 29 saves
for the Oilers.
Daniel Sprong and Vince Dunn
scored for the Kraken.
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onds of ice time — the second
wards behind Ovechkin’s 21:41 —
and has just one assist in the past
six games.
Kuznetsov is second on the
team with 37 points and leads the
way with 31 assists, but his most
recent goal came Dec. 29 against
Ottawa.
Dowd out ‘for a bit’
Dowd suffered a lower-body
injury Monday. Laviolette said
Tuesday that he would be out “for
a bit.” He has 10 goals and nine
assists in 44 games and plays a
pivotal role as a shutdown center.
Protas heading west
Forward Aliaksei Protas was in
the press box Tuesday and is
slated to travel with Washington
on its three-game trip. The Capi-
tals have not recalled Protas from
the American Hockey League, but
he is expected to be on the roster
for Thursday’s game in Arizona.
Protas has played in 41 NHL
games this season, notching
three goals and seven assists. He
was sent to Hershey early this
month to make room for the
returns of Nicklas Backstrom and
Tom Wilson. With the Hershey
Bears, he had three assists in five
games.
and the sixth percentile in walk
percentage, per Statcast.
A strong but deceiving 2019
included underlying metrics that
suggested future regression. His
value, then, comes with Gold
Glove-caliber defense (96th per-
centile in arm strength, 90th per-
centile in outs above average) and
speed (86th percentile after some
decline). And though Robles
might commit a handful of head-
scratching mistakes each season,
his arm, range and instincts in the
outfield could prop up even mar-
ginally improved production in
the batter’s box.
Think about teams that stash a
defense-first catcher at the bot-
tom of the order, feeling his fram-
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
F ROM STAFF REPORTS
In his first meet of the year
after football season, Nyckoles
Harbor reminded spectators why
he’s one of the most talked about
athletes in the country.
The Archbishop Carroll senior
arrived at the VA Showcase in
Virginia Beach on Friday thinking
it would be a good opportunity to
warm up for the rest of the season.
After playing in the Under Ar-
mour All-America football game
in Orlando on Jan. 3, he was eager
to begin training for track.
But for Harbor, training can
also mean running some of the
best times in the nation — includ-
ing the top performance in the
United States in the 300 meters at
33.90 seconds.
“It was the first 33 of the sea-
son, so I got the crowd going crazy
with that,” said Harbor, who had
to wait for two more heats to
finish before finding out he had
won the event. “When we realized
we won . . . I ran off the track and
gave my dad a hug, and it was go
time after that.”
Harbor shaved nearly a second
off his personal record of 34.71 set
at last year’s D.C. State Athletic
Association indoor champion-
ships. But his work wasn’t done
yet.
He returned Saturday with
teammates hungry to break the
4x200 record. Although they
barely missed that mark, the Li-
ons dominated the event in
1:26.42 for the No. 4 time in the
nation.
“What I’m hoping to pass on is
greatness,” Harbor said of his
goals for the team before he grad-
uates. “Archbishop Carroll is now
a dynasty. We created a dynasty.”
Harbor — a five-star football
recruit who also plans to compete
in track at the next level — said he
will announce his college deci-
sion Feb. 1. The 6-foot-5,
225-pounder has his pick among
dozens of scholarship offers from
Power Five schools.
Harbor and Carroll weren’t the
only local participants to stand
out this past weekend. Bullis put
its relay prowess on full display by
breaking the mixed 4x400 record
Saturday. Myla Greene, Mickey
Green, Sage Hinton and Quincy
Wilson finished in 3:31.47 to shat-
ter the record set in 2018 by
Nansemond Valley, which fin-
ished second to the Bulldogs.
— Aaron Credeur
Hockey
When Matt Revkin signed on to
be the coach at Bullis, he had one
goal in mind: to build pride in the
program.
For the past couple of years, the
Bulldogs have traditionally been
in the bottom half of the
Mid-Atlantic Prep Hockey League
and Interstate Athletic Confer-
ence standings.
To reach his goal, Revkin built
up the schedule to include six
additional games for a season
total of 21. He also hired a
strength and conditioning coach
specific to hockey as well as
coaches who work with netmind-
ers Troy Wright and Andrew Vas-
sa.
The biggest change, however, is
that Revkin is also a teacher at the
school. (His class is in entrepre-
neurship.) His presence on cam-
pus — combined with gear the
team was provided to wear
around school — has given the
hockey program more visibility.
“My kids now feel like they are
an integral part of this campus,”
Revkin said.
Behind Wright in goal and de-
fensive pillars Davian Peretti, Av-
ery Brown, Ethan Liu and Cooper
Kuehl, Bullis was able to hold IAC
powerhouse Landon to one goal
in their league matchup Wednes-
day. Despite a 1-0 loss, the close
game showed the Bulldogs are
competitors within the league
this year.
The Bulldogs sit in fifth in the
MAPHL’s 11-team AA division and
have a tough final five games,
including matchups with heavy
hitters St. John’s, Gonzaga and
Georgetown Prep.
ing and work with pitchers is
worth a fairly easy out. The Na-
tionals don’t have to deploy that
logic with Keibert Ruiz, whom
they expect to hit for more power
this year. With Robles, though,
they could reap the benefits of his
defense — benefits even more crit-
ical for a young pitching staff —
while trying to improve his bat
with adjusted expectations.
To this point of the winter, Riz-
zo and Martinez have used the
usual company lines: Robles will
have a shot to be the Nationals’
everyday center fielder again.
They believe he can improve at the
plate. His glove is top-notch.
But if Robles and the team do
go to an arbitration hearing dur-
D5
“Playing Landon close gave us a
lot of confidence, and I’m hoping
all of this helps us push through
the rest of our schedule,” Revkin
said.
— Hayley Salvatore
Wrestling
On Saturday at Grapple at the
Brook, a 15-team meet held at
Springbrook High in Silver
Spring, a new group found itself
out in front of the bunch from the
Old Line State. The Northwest
Jaguars scored 182 points to fin-
ish second behind Cape Henlopen
of Delaware, well ahead of Clarks-
burg (158), Whitman (155.5) and
the host Blue Devils (146.5).
Northwest, which is 6-0 in dual
meets, had individual champions
in sophomores Fernando Mejia
Jr. (145 pounds) and Ivan Carrillo
(182). Nine of the Jaguars placed,
six of whom were the champion
or runner-up of their weight class.
“We’re one step away from be-
ing a top team,” said Coach Mauro
Beteta, who graduated from
Northwest in 2015 and from
Maryland in 2019. “This year
might be our year.”
Last year, Churchill was the
only team to beat the Jaguars,
who haven’t won a region dual
title since 2004. Northwest best-
ed the Bulldogs on conditions
after a 33-33 tie at the Rockville
Rumble on Dec. 6 before finishing
ahead of them last weekend. It
will try to do it again during the
teams’ head-to-head dual meet
Wednesday in Potomac.
Elsewhere, 44 wrestlers com-
peted in the D.C. State Athletic
Association girls’ invitational Sat-
urday at Washington Latin, with
Bell leading 17 schools (hailing
from the District; Montgomery,
Prince George’s and Fairfax coun-
ties; and Delaware) with eight
wrestlers. Einstein sophomore
144-pounder Kaia Condon was
named most outstanding wres-
tler.
Paul VI dominated with 261.5
points at its Panther Invitational
in Chantilly to beat out Independ-
ence (204), Centreville (184.5)
and Langley (156). Seniors Kee-
gan McMahon, a 132-pounder,
and Brady Colbert, a 215-pounder,
won the lower and upper weight
outstanding wrestler awards.
— Shane Connuck
Swimming
Jamie Grimes was a Metros
champion in the 500-yard free-
style in the 1990s. He was a three-
time all-American at the Univer-
sity of Virginia and a two-time
U.S. Olympic trials qualifier in the
1,500-meter freestyle over the
course of his 17-year swimming
career.
But for some at Walter John-
son, he’s just “Coach Jamie.”
“Some of the kids honestly
didn’t even know that I swam and
that I was that fast,” Grimes said.
“They know I coach and they
know I probably did swim, but I
don’t really bring it up that much
to them.”
For the past two decades,
Grimes has turned the Wildcats
into a steady force in Montgom-
ery County. The girls are the de-
fending state champions and will
look to repeat at the meet this
year, while the boys also will bring
talented swimmers to the cham-
pionship meets.
Some of the team’s more ten-
ured swimmers know of Grimes’s
swimming success. Occasionally,
he calls on his experience to relate
to some of his state title contend-
ers.
“It’s been part of my life pretty
much since I can remember, so it’s
kind of where I am,” Grimes said.
If there’s one swimmer Grimes
can relate most to, it’s senior
Maren Conze. Three years ago,
Grimes watched the then-fresh-
man emerge from the pool victo-
rious in the same 500 freestyle
race he won decades ago. It was
one of her two individual wins at
the meet.
Conze, Grimes and the Wild-
cats will look to return to the top
of the podium with the champi-
onship season just weeks away.
— Noah Ferguson
ing spring training, he would sit in
a room while representatives
from the club explain why he is
worth less than he believes. The
process, as designed, can only
leave players feeling worse about
themselves.
Robles, in all likelihood, will
never reach the sky-high expecta-
tions that trailed him out of the
Dominican Republic. Yet he still
could be a functioning part of a
rebuilding club that’s bound for
another quiet October. That
would just require Robles, the on-
field staff and the front office get-
ting on a similar page about
what’s expected and what’s next.
Early in a new year, that isn’t
going well.
D6
BASKETBALL FROM D1
were about to pay off. Teammates
wanted nothing more than to see
Meade, who dived after basket-
balls with reckless abandon and
helped them with math home-
work before practice, flourish on
the court.
“This was going to be his year,”
Weiser said.
That night in November, after
seeing his friends, Meade went to
his girlfriend’s house. Shortly past
midnight, on his ride home, a
teenager driving under the influ-
ence crashed into Meade’s car,
killing the senior. He was 17.
“You can see them sometimes
just looking outside,” Washing-
ton-Liberty Coach Bobby Dobson
said of his players. “They miss
him. I miss him.”
This winter, Washington-Lib-
erty is one of several Northern
Virginia basketball teams griev-
ing in the wake of a player’s sud-
den and gutting death. Kyle Hon-
ore, a 2022 Potomac graduate and
All-Met selection, and Colette
Baine, a senior at Woodgrove and
region player of the year, died in
August.
All three teams have turned to
their sport as an outlet of recov-
ery.
“The basketball team,” Weiser
said, “is a different brotherhood
now.”
To play for, and like, their star
Potomac players looked at their
shoelaces and the gym’s gray brick
walls because there wasn’t a bet-
ter place to look. Some knew Hon-
ore for a few years while others
knew him for a few months, but
everyone who stood on the Pan-
thers’ court in mid-August knew
him well.
He was their star. Their coach’s
son. The one who was a fixture in
the gym even after graduation,
who ordered chicken tenders and
chocolate milk at barbecue res-
taurants, who loved his four-
wheeler and made everyone
around him wonder: How does he
always have the time to help me?
On Aug. 16, two days after his
dad dropped him off at Wingate
University — where he was set to
begin the next stage of his basket-
ball career — a train struck and
killed him. He was 19.
There was no room for players
to compartmentalize that day. Al-
most immediately, they cried and
traded memories, quietly at that
first practice and unrelentingly
over the ensuing months.
More than anything, they re-
membered his smile, which never
seemed to leave his face for more
than a few seconds, especially in
the gym. That day, at the players’
request, they practiced.
“Being in the gym — it just
makes me feel better because I
know Kyle is in there with me,
watching over me,” senior Tyree
Hargett said. “No one lives for-
ever. Life doesn’t last forever. . . .
We know that now. I feel like it
brought us closer together. We’ve
got to cherish our moments to-
gether.”
Noise and movement rarely
halt at a Potomac practice.
It’s early January, after the holi-
day break, and there’s an unspo-
ken agreement among the players
and coaches: They’re practicing
as Honore did. The athletes are
sweating, drawing charges and
flying around the court, but it’s
clear their most important task is
to cheer from the baseline — to
become part of the collective, the
sea of clapping, of yelling, of
laughing teammates. As players
complete the final drill — a layup
attempt while assistants pummel
them with foam pads — the inces-
sant roar crescendos and players
tap their biceps.
These practices are the tradi-
tion the Honores built at Potomac.
In certain ways, Kyle was an ex-
tension of his father on the court:
gifted, hard-working and intelli-
gent. In others, he was of his own
mold: calmer, quieter. Both car-
ried an unrelenting smile and
energy in those practices. Basket-
ball was their outlet.
“He was not only successful —
he was the best,” said Keith Hon-
ore, Kyle’s father and coach. “He
had a lot on his shoulders; he had
to carry on that Potomac legacy.
And I got a front-row seat to it. I
got to help guide him. That’s any
father’s dream.”
As the Panthers try to play like
Honore, they also try to replicate
his compassion off the court. In
trying moments, Hargett has kept
in touch with graduated team-
mates. Anthony Mills, who took
over as coach this season, will stay
up to an hour after some practices
end if someone needs a ride or a
set of ears. Keith and Nichole
Honore still hear from players,
some of whom have gotten tattoos
in their son’s memory.
“During tough times, you really
find out a lot about people and the
community,” Keith Honore said.
“How much love they had for our
family, it’s extremely overwhelm-
ing. We’re grateful. They wrapped
their arms around us.”
And still, in Honore’s tribute,
Grief first, then healing
on the basketball court
Braylon Meade
Braylon Meade’s parents, Rose Kehoe and Kris Meade, top and above, attend every
Washington-Liberty home game and were embraced by his teammate Elijah Hughes, above.
Potomac players, middle, gathered around a memorial to Kyle Honore in their gymnasium.
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High schools
Potomac basketball remains
about the competition as much as
it is a place to heal. At 12-4, the
Panthers are a contender to make
a deep run within Virginia. Their
goal is to win a state title for him.
Missing their energy source
Woodgrove was always in a
better spot when Baine was on the
court.
It was easy to see the winning
moments. The game-winning
shot in the region final as a fresh-
man. The wild layups that always
seemed to fall in. The corner
three-pointers she made with
ease. The endless string of posi-
tive plus-minus totals that dotted
the coaches’ spreadsheets.
But nothing told Woodgrove
Coach Derek Fisher more about
his player than when he called her
after her sophomore season to say
she was named Potomac District
player of the year.
“She called me back five min-
utes later, and she didn’t know
Colette Baine Kyle Honore what that meant,” Fisher said,
laughing. “Not only were those
individual accolades not her mis-
sion, she literally didn’t even
know what that was. It wasn’t why
she played. She just loved being
part of the team.”
Baine, like Meade and Honore,
had a bounce to her. She con-
trolled the aux cord in the locker
room and even walked musically,
teammates said. She had strong
emotions after losses but even
stronger emotions after wins and
was sarcastic in a way everyone
enjoyed. Fisher felt a world of
comfort when he named her team
captain in mid-August.
On Aug. 27, after returning
from a football game, Baine —
who was diagnosed with epilepsy
in 2018 — died after what her
family characterized as a “medical
emergency” at home. She was 17.
“Everything since seems kind
of — not dull, but . . . I don’t know,”
said senior Jenna Steadman,
searching for the right words.
“She always brought good energy.
That’s just missing.”
Mourning their way
Coaches, in particular, have
grappled with guiding teens
ANTHONY MILLS
through the mourning process.
When the days get easier, players
wonder if it’s okay to feel happy. If
their emotions take a dive, it can
feel like the end of the world. The
coaches at Washington-Liberty,
Potomac and Woodgrove men-
tioned they talked to counselors
and experts, who offered guid-
ance on how to mindfully watch
and listen.
While many athletes across the
teams took advantage of their
school’s counseling services, most
first looked to teammates for an-
swers. A place such as the court,
where they can take their mind off
the trauma, and the community
within a team, where they can
discuss shared trauma, are essen-
tial parts of the grieving process,
said Potomac school psychologist
Adam Johnson. It can be harder to
see a mental health professional.
Particularly among teenagers
there’s a stigma in seeing a mental
health professional, Johnson said.
“We all grieve differently,” he
said. “Just trying to meet people
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where they are, hopefully within
the community, will help ease the
pain as much as possible.”
“When you’re coaching young
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people, they haven’t been through
this type of loss,” Fisher said. “It
just doesn’t register with them.
There’s confusion on their part.
We’ve got to make sure we’re there
for all these kids and to explain
some of these emotions that
they’re not understanding.”
After an initial grieving period,
Woodgrove’s players have spent
more time together. Some mo-
ments were hard. Early on during
a routine drill, Fisher and a senior
simultaneously began to well up.
Baine used to command the entire
gym’s attention during that drill.
Even the Wolverines’ basket-
ball vocabulary was updated to
echo Baine’s. They don’t talk
about points or rebounds but of
“winning your segment.” Memori-
als to Baine bleed on and off the
court. Players have organized
fundraisers, including a skills
competition and a three-point
contest, for the Epilepsy Founda-
tion. Their warmup shirts have a
heart around Baine’s name and
her No. 13 on the back.
“I’m happy to say I think those
are happy moments now for
them,” Fisher said. “There are
things that remind them of her,
but there’s a fondness. They’re
anxious to remember her.”
For No. 22
Reminders of Meade are inten-
tionally omnipresent. Before
games, the teams have a 22-sec-
ond moment of silence. Meade’s
role was the handshake guy at the
end of the starting lineup; now,
teammates high-five the air be-
fore hugging Meade’s parents,
who attend every Washington-
Liberty home game.
During their season opener
against Chantilly, the Generals
found themselves with an early
deficit, shaken up after the first of
many pregame memorials to
Meade. They won by 41. (At Poto-
mac’s first game at the Kyle Hon-
ore Tip-Off, an early double-digit
deficit turned into a convincing
15-point win).
In a December game two weeks
later against rival Yorktown, both
student sections wore shirts with
Meade’s name and No. 22 on the
back. During the contest, Meade’s
jersey draped over a steel chair
that remained empty at the end of
the bench, and his father and
girlfriend retaped posters that
had lost their adhesiveness on the
wall.
Once the game began, it was all
business. Washington-Liberty,
the Liberty District champion last
season, vs. Yorktown, then 4-1 —
each searching for a win early in
league play.
With McIntyre, one of their top
players, sitting out with an injury,
the Generals grinded through one
sluggish possession after another.
They trailed 14-7 after a quarter,
then 28-20 at halftime. But a wave
of defensive stops gave them a
chance entering the fourth quar-
ter.
Down three points with three
minutes left, Washington-Liberty
players huddled around their
coach. Dobson, exasperated, re-
peatedly yelled “Twenty-two!” be-
tween breaths.
“That means guard your guy,”
Dobson said.
There was no storybook ending
— the Generals did not win. But
they held their rivals scoreless for
the rest of the game.
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PRO FOOTBALL P RO B A SKE T B A L L C O L LEG E B A S KET B A L L H OC KEY

Warm welcome and win
NFL playoffs
FIRST ROUND
NBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
NCAA men
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
NHL
ATLANTIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA
for Djokovic in return
Boston ........................ 43 34 5 4 72 166 94
SATURDAY’S RESULTS ATLANTIC W L Pct GB EAST Toronto ....................... 45 27 11 7 61 152 121
at San Francisco 41, Seattle 23 Boston ........................................ 33
x-Philadelphia ............................ 27
12
16
.733
.628
—
5 Buffalo 100, Bowling Green 71 Tampa Bay.................. 42 28 13 1 57 152 122 A SSOCIATED P RESS Murray built a huge lead, let
at Jacksonville 31, Los Angeles Chargers 30 Florida......................... 46 21 20 5 47 152 158
SUNDAY’S RESULTS Brooklyn ..................................... 27 16 .628 5 SOUTH Buffalo........................ 43 21 19 3 45 163 150 it disappear completely, then
at Cincinnati 24, Baltimore 17
New York.................................... 25
Toronto....................................... 20
20
25
.556
.444
8
13 Alabama 78, Vanderbilt 66
Detroit ........................ 43 18 17 8 44 134 149 The supportive signs and doz- needed to save a match point
Ottawa........................ 43 19 21 3 41 126 139
at Buffalo 34, Miami 31
N.Y. Giants 31, at Minnesota 24
Belmont 80, Murray St. 65 Montreal..................... 45 19 23 3 41 120 163 ens of Serbian flags and loud against Matteo Berrettini — who
Houston 80, Tulane 60
MONDAY’S RESULT
SOUTHEAST W
Miami ......................................... 24
L
21
Pct
.533
GB
— Kentucky 85, Georgia 71 chants of Novak Djokovic's nick- is nearly a full decade younger
METROPOLITAN GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Dallas 31, at Tampa Bay 14 Atlanta ....................................... 22 22 .500 11/2 Mississippi 70, South Carolina 58
NC State 78, Georgia Tech 66 Carolina....................... 44 27 9 8 62 141 120 name filled Rod Laver Arena, pro- and ranked more than 50 places
Washington................................ 18 26 .409 51/2
DIVISIONAL ROUND Orlando....................................... 16 28 .364 71/2 North Carolina 72, Boston College 64 New Jersey ................. 44
N.Y. Rangers............... 45
29
25
12
13
3 61 156 116
7 57 144 120
viding a warm welcome marking higher — before managing to pull
SATURDAY’S GAMES Richmond 64, Rhode Island 57
Jacksonville at Kansas City (-81/2), 4:30 (NBC)
Charlotte .................................... 11 34 .244 13
Tennessee 70, Mississippi St. 59 Washington ................ 47 24 17 6 54 150 133 his return to the Australian Open out a 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-7 (9-7), 7-6
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia (-71/2), 8:15 (Fox)
CENTRAL W L Pct GB
VCU 83, UMass 55
Wake Forest 87, Clemson 77
Pittsburgh .................. 43
N.Y. Islanders ............. 45
22
23
15
18
6 50 139 130
4 50 136 124
in Melbourne — a tournament he (10-6) triumph across more than
SUNDAY’S GAMES Milwaukee.................................. 29 16 .644 — Philadelphia................ 45 19 19 7 45 127 145 has dominated in the past but one 41/2 epic hours Tuesday in the first
Cincinnati at Buffalo (-41/2), 3 (CBS) Cleveland.................................... 28 17 .622 1 MIDWEST Columbus.................... 44 13 29 2 28 111 172
Dallas at San Francisco (-4), 6:30 (Fox) Indiana........................................ 23 22 .511 6 Akron 69, Cent. Michigan 51
he could not enter a year ago. round.
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
Chicago ....................................... 20
Detroit ........................................ 12
24
35
.455
.255
81/2
18
Ball St. 71, W. Michigan 70 CENTRAL GP W L OT Pts GF GA Djokovic acknowledged the “The last few years, I’ve cer-
Creighton 73, Butler 52 Dallas.......................... 45 26 12 7 59 156 119
SUNDAY, JAN. 29
NFC WESTERN CONFERENCE Dayton 68, Davidson 61 Winnipeg .................... 45 29 15 1 59 149 118 greeting with a quick wave of his tainly questioned myself at times.
NFC lowest remaining seed at NFC highest remaining Florida St. 84, Notre Dame 71 Minnesota .................. 43
Nashville..................... 44
25
21
14
17
4 54 138 120
6 48 122 128
left hand when he stepped out There’s certainly a lot of people
SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB Iowa St. 78, Texas 67
seed, 6:30 (Fox)
Memphis..................................... 30 13 .698 — Kansas St. 83, Kansas 82, OT Colorado...................... 42 22 17 3 47 131 121 onto the court at 10:30 p.m. Tues- [who] questioned me and my abil-
AFC
AFC lowest remaining seed at AFC highest remaining
New Orleans............................... 26 18 .591 41/2 Kent St. 77, E. Michigan 63
N. Illinois 81, Miami (Ohio) 77
St. Louis...................... 45
Arizona ....................... 44
22
14
20
25
3 47 141 160
5 33 119 161
day, then got down to business by ity, whether I could still perform
Dallas.......................................... 24 21 .533 7
seed, 3:05 (CBS) San Antonio................................ 14 31 .311 17 S. Illinois 78, Evansville 70 Chicago ....................... 42 12 26 4 28 98 157 playing quite well and only briefly at the biggest events and the big-
Kansas City vs. Buffalo would be played at Atlanta’s Toledo 90, Ohio 75
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Houston...................................... 10 34 .227 201/2
Valparaiso 76, Ill.-Chicago 66 PACIFIC GP W L OT Pts GF GA
showing a hint of trouble from the gest matches,” said the 35-year-
SUPER BOWL NORTHWEST W L Pct GB
Wisconsin 63, Penn St. 60 Vegas .......................... 45 28 15 2 58 147 130 balky left hamstring that was old Murray, a former No. 1 now
Seattle ........................ 44 26 14 4 56 161 139
SUNDAY, FEB. 12 Denver ........................................ 31
Utah............................................ 23
13
24
.705
.489
—
91/2
SOUTHWEST
Los Angeles ................ 46 25 15 6 56 154 157 heavily taped. ranked No. 66. “I felt very proud of
AT GLENDALE, ARIZ.
Conference championship game winners, 6:30 (Fox) Minnesota .................................. 22 23 .489 91/2 Baylor 81, Texas Tech 74 Edmonton ................... 46 25 18 3 53 169 152 With his parents and brother in myself after the match. That’s not
Oklahoma City............................ 21 23 .477 10 Calgary........................ 45 21 15 9 51 143 136
Portland...................................... 21 23 .477 10
FAR WEST Vancouver................... 43 18 22 3 39 150 173 the stands at Melbourne Park for something that I generally felt
Air Force 82, Wyoming 74
Boise St. 77, Nevada 62
San Jose ..................... 45
Anaheim ..................... 45
13
12
23
28
9 35 137 172
5 29 105 190
the first time since he won his first over the years at the end of tennis
Cowboys 31, PACIFIC
Sacramento ................................ 24
W L
18
Pct
.571
GB
—
New Mexico 77, San Jose St. 57
Utah St. 75, UNLV 71 MONDAY’S RESULTS
Grand Slam title there 15 years matches.”
Buccaneers 14 x-L.A. Clippers............................ 23 22 .511 21/2 Washington 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT ago, Djokovic began the first- This was the three-time major
Golden State .............................. 22 22 .500 3
Phoenix....................................... 21 24 .467 41/2
Florida 4, Buffalo 1 round match with an ace at 125 champion’s first defeat of a top-20
DALLAS .................................... 6 12 6 7 —31 Boston 6, Philadelphia 0
TAMPA BAY ............................. 0 0 6 8 —14
L.A. Lakers.................................. 20 24 .455 5
Colorado 6, Detroit 3 mph. He held at love there, took opponent at a Grand Slam tour-
x-Late game VCU 83, Massachusetts 55 Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 1 control of that set with a 12-point nament since 2017.
FIRST QUARTER
Dallas: Schultz 22 pass from Prescott (kick failed), MONDAY’S RESULTS Massachusetts (11-7)
Cross 5-15 5-6 15, Martin 1-3 2-2 4, Leveque 1-2 2-2 4,
New Jersey 4, San Jose 3, SO
Dallas 4, Vegas 0
run and was on his way to a 6-3, The night session matches that
6:28. Golden State 127, Washington 118
Boston 130, Charlotte 118
Diggins 3-10 1-3 7, Weeks 2-9 1-2 6, K.Thompson 1-9 0-0 N.Y. Rangers 3, Columbus 1 6-4, 6-0 victory over 75th-ranked followed in Rod Laver Arena
SECOND QUARTER 3, Dominguez 4-9 0-1 10, Kante 1-4 1-2 3, Gapare 0-2 0-0
Dallas: Prescott 1 run (kick failed), 6:13. Milwaukee 132, Indiana 119 0, G.Thompson 1-2 1-2 3, Kelly 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-65
Pittsburgh 4, Anaheim 3, OT Roberto Carballes Baena that fin- couldn’t possibly equal the inten-
St. Louis 2, Ottawa 1
Dallas: Schultz 11 pass from Prescott (kick failed), :27. Cleveland 113, New Orleans 103 13-20 55.
Vcu (14-5) Nashville 2, Calgary 1 ished after midnight. sity and drama. First came a 7-6
Toronto 123, New York 121, OT
THIRD QUARTER Atlanta 121, Miami 113 DeLoach 7-11 5-8 19, Johns 4-7 2-3 10, Baldwin 1-3 0-0 2, TUESDAY’S RESULTS “Unbelievable atmosphere. (10-8), 4-6, 6-1 win for the No. 2-
Dallas: Gallup 2 pass from Prescott (kick failed), 10:04.
Tampa Bay: Jones 30 pass from Brady (pass failed),
Utah 126, Minnesota 125 Kern 5-8 2-2 12, Nunn 4-8 2-2 13, Jackson 5-8 2-2 12,
Shriver 2-5 0-0 6, Watkins 2-7 0-0 6, Banks 1-2 0-0 3, Minnesota 4, Washington 2 Thank you so much for staying seeded woman, Ons Jabeur, over
Memphis 136, Phoenix 106
:00.
L.A. Lakers 140, Houston 132
Fermin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-59 13-17 83. Montreal 4, Winnipeg 1
Philadelphia 5, Anaheim 2
this late, everybody. Also, thank Tamara Zidansek. In a match that
Halftime: VCU 40-33. Three-point goals: Massachusetts
FOURTH QUARTER TUESDAY’S RESULTS 4-25 (Dominguez 2-4, K.Thompson 1-3, Weeks 1-8, Toronto 5, Florida 4, OT you for giving me such a welcom- ended after 1 a.m., the second-
Dallas: Lamb 18 pass from Prescott (Maher kick),
10:13. Milwaukee 130, Toronto 122
Gapare 0-1, Leveque 0-1, Cross 0-4, Diggins 0-4), VCU
8-16 (Nunn 3-3, Shriver 2-4, Watkins 2-5, Banks 1-1,
Nashville 2, Columbus 1 ing and a reception I can only seeded man, two-time major fi-
Chicago 4, Buffalo 3, OT
Tampa Bay: Brate 8 pass from Brady (Evans pass from San Antonio 106, Brooklyn 98 Baldwin 0-1, Jackson 0-2). Fouled out: Leveque. Re- Edmonton 5, Seattle 2 dream of,” Djokovic told the nalist Casper Ruud, got past
Brady), 2:04. Denver 122, Portland 113 bounds: Massachusetts 31 (Cross 10), VCU 39 (DeLoach
Attendance: 69,145. Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, late 12). Assists: Massachusetts 14 (Cross 5), VCU 19
Arizona 4, Detroit 3, SO crowd in an on-court interview. Tomas Machac, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), 6-7
DAL TB WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
(Jackson 5). Total fouls: Massachusetts 14, VCU 13. A: WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Djokovic’s participation is one (7-5), 6-3.
7,225 (7,637).
First Downs .......................................... 26 24 Washington at New York, 7:30
Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 of the chief storylines, perhaps
Total Net Yards ................................... 425 386 Atlanta at Dallas, 7:30
Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30
the most significant one, of the No. 1 seed Swiatek rolls
Rushes-Yards ............................... 35-128 12-52 Colorado at Calgary, 9:30
Charlotte at Houston, 8
Passing ................................................ 297
Punt Returns ....................................... 2-7
334
3-34 Cleveland at Memphis, 8 No. 1 Houston 80, Tulane 60 Dallas at San Jose, 10 first Grand Slam tournament of Top-seeded Iga Swiatek eased
Tampa Bay at Vancouver, 10
Kickoff Returns ................................. 1-35 3-58 Indiana at Oklahoma City, 8 Houston (18-1) 2023. That’s because Djokovic into the third round Wednesday
Miami at New Orleans, 8 THURSDAY’S GAMES
Interceptions Ret. ............................... 1-0
Comp-Att-Int ............................... 25-33-0
0-0
35-66-1 L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9
Roberts 6-9 3-4 15, J.Walker 3-8 0-0 6, Mark 5-11 0-0 12,
Sasser 8-13 0-0 23, Shead 6-10 0-1 14, Sharp 1-2 3-3 6, Washington at Arizona, 9
never got to play a point last as she beat Camila Osorio of Co-
Sacked-Yards Lost .............................. 1-8 2-17 Minnesota at Denver, 10 Chaney 0-0 0-0 0, Francis 2-2 0-1 4, Arceneaux 0-1 0-0 0. Anaheim at Columbus, 7 season at the site of nine of his lombia, 6-2, 6-3.
Punts ............................................ 4-47.25 5-49.0 Totals 31-56 6-9 80.
Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 0-0 2-0
Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 10:30
Tulane (12-6)
Boston at N.Y. Rangers, 7 major championships, because In a match played with the roof
Chicago at Philadelphia, 7
Penalties-Yards ................................ 2-15
Time Of Possession ......................... 35:30
3-34
24:30
THURSDAY’S GAMES Cross 6-11 0-0 12, Holloway 1-2 1-2 3, Cook 6-19 1-1 15,
Forbes 6-16 7-8 23, James 2-5 1-1 5, McGee 0-0 0-0 0, Florida at Montreal, 7 his visa was blocked and he was closed because of rain, the player
Chicago at Detroit, 3
PASSING Golden State at Boston, 7:30 Pope 1-1 0-0 2, Coleman 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Minnesota at Carolina, 7 deported from Australia after a from Poland was broken when
Winnipeg at Toronto, 7
Dallas: Prescott 25-33-0-305. Toronto at Minnesota, 8
Totals 22-55 10-12 60.
Halftime: Houston 40-32. Three-point goals: Houston N.Y. Islanders at Buffalo, 7:30
legal saga tied to his lack of any serving for the match at 5-1 but
Tampa Bay: Brady 35-66-1-351. Brooklyn at Phoenix, 10
Philadelphia at Portland, 10
12-24 (Sasser 7-12, Shead 2-3, Mark 2-4, Sharp 1-2, Nashville at St. Louis, 8 vaccination for the coronavirus. sealed victory two games later.
J.Walker 0-3), Tulane 6-26 (Forbes 4-11, Cook 2-8,
RUSHING
Coleman 0-1, Holloway 0-1, Cross 0-2, James 0-3).
Tampa Bay at Edmonton, 9 The reigning French Open and
Dallas: Pollard 15-77, Elliott 13-27, Prescott 7-24. FRIDAY’S GAMES
Rebounds: Houston 34 (J.Walker 9), Tulane 24 (James
Detroit at Vegas, 10
New Jersey at Seattle, 10
Murray springs an upset U.S. Open champion will now play
Tampa Bay: R.White 7-41, Fournette 5-11. New Orleans at Orlando, 7 9). Assists: Houston 20 (Shead 7), Tulane 10 (Cross 3).
RECEIVING Golden State at Cleveland, 7:30 Total fouls: Houston 12, Tulane 12. A: 3,621 (4,100). Dallas at Los Angeles, 10:30 Metal hip, bloody knee and all, either Bianca Andreescu of Cana-
Miami at Dallas, 7:30
Dallas: Schultz 7-95, Gallup 5-46, Lamb 4-68, Pollard
New York at Atlanta, 7:30
Andy Murray produced his big- da, a former U.S. Open champion,
3-12, Hilton 2-23, N.Brown 2-18, Ferguson 1-34, Elliott
1-9. L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8 Flyers 5, Ducks 2 gest victory in years. or Cristina Bucsa of Spain.
Tampa Bay: Godwin 10-85, Jones 7-74, Evans 6-74, Ot- Brooklyn at Utah, 9 No. 13 Kansas State 83, ANAHEIM ................................ 0 1 1 — 2
ton 4-58, R.White 4-36, Gage 2-10, Brate 1-8, Fournette Indiana at Denver, 9
1-6. Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 10
No. 2 Kansas 82 (OT) PHILADELPHIA ........................ 1 2 2 — 5

MISSED FIELD GOALS Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 10 Kansas (16-2) FIRST PERIOD
Adams 6-6 5-10 17, Wilson 12-25 11-12 38, Dick 4-13 7-8 Scoring: 1, Philadelphia, Hayes 11 (Konecny, DeAngelo),
None. 16, Harris 1-7 0-0 3, McCullar 0-2 0-2 0, Yesufu 2-5 0-0 5, 13:32 (pp).
Clemence 1-2 0-0 2, Pettiford 0-0 0-0 0, Ejiofor 0-0 1-2 1.
Bucks 130, Raptors 122 Totals 26-60 24-34 82. SECOND PERIOD
T EN N IS Toronto ............................... 34 40 23 25 — 122
Kansas St. (16-2)
Scoring: 2, Anaheim, Henrique 15 (Zegras, Klingberg),
Johnson 7-17 8-9 24, Tomlin 5-11 5-6 15, Iyiola 1-3 2-4 4,
Milwaukee .......................... 44 23 38 25 — 130 Carter 1-6 2-2 5, Nowell 2-8 0-0 4, Sills 7-11 8-9 24, 7:39. 3, Philadelphia, Ristolainen 1 (Laughton, Konecny),
12:43 (sh). 4, Philadelphia, Frost 9 (van Riemsdyk,
Australian Open TORONTO MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS Massoud 2-3 0-0 6, Greene 0-1 1-3 1. Totals 25-60 26-33
83. Ristolainen), 19:21.
Anunoby 34:59 2-13 1-2 2-3 2 1 5
At Melbourne Park Barnes 36:43 6-15 2-5 6-13 5 1 14 Halftime: Kansas St. 44-39. Three-point goals: Kansas THIRD PERIOD
In Melbourne, Australia Siakam 40:11 8-13 6-11 3-9 3 1 23 6-29 (Wilson 3-10, Yesufu 1-3, Harris 1-6, Dick 1-8,
Purse: AUD34,848,000 McCullar 0-2), Kansas St. 7-17 (Massoud 2-2, Sills 2-3, Scoring: 5, Philadelphia, Hayes 12 (Laughton, Allison),
Trent Jr. 43:05 10-19 4-4 0-3 2 2 28 2:30. 6, Anaheim, Vatrano 7 (Strome, Shattenkirk),
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor VanVleet 37:07 15-28 3-3 1-9 7 4 39 Johnson 2-4, Carter 1-2, Tomlin 0-2, Nowell 0-4). Fouled
out: Adams, Dick, McCullar, Tomlin. Rebounds: Kansas 18:51 (pp). 7, Philadelphia, Hayes 13 (Allison, York),
MEN’S SINGLES — SECOND ROUND Achiuwa 26:02 4-10 1-2 5-7 0 2 11 19:16 (en).
Boucher 14:15 0-2 0-0 3-5 1 3 0 32 (Wilson 9), Kansas St. 38 (Tomlin 10). Assists:
Jannik Sinner (15), Italy, def. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Kansas 21 (Harris 11), Kansas St. 12 (Nowell 7). Total
Hernangomez 7:38 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 2
fouls: Kansas 25, Kansas St. 24.
SHOTS ON GOAL
Argentina, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
TOTALS 240 46-101 17-27 20-50 20 14 122 ANAHEIM ................................ 4 9 14 — 27
WOMEN’S SINGLES — SECOND ROUND PHILADELPHIA ...................... 17 13 9 — 39
Percentages: FG .455, FT .630. 3-Point Goals: 13-35, .371
Iga Swiatek (1), Poland, def. Camila Osorio, Colombia, Power-play opportunities: Anaheim 1 of 3; Philadelphia
(VanVleet 6-12, Trent Jr. 4-9, Achiuwa 2-3, Siakam 1-4,
6-2, 6-3; Maria Sakkari (6), Greece, def. Diana Shnaider, Barnes 0-3, Anunoby 0-4). Team Rebounds: 9. Team No. 4 Alabama 78, Vanderbilt 66 1 of 5. Goalies: Anaheim, Stolarz 3-6-0 (38 shots-34
saves). Philadelphia, Ersson 5-0-0 (27-25). A: 16,312
Russia, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Jessica Pegula (3), United States, Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 5 (Achiuwa, Anunoby,
def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-2, 7-6 (7-5). Alabama (16-2) (19,543). T: 2:26.
Barnes, Boucher, Siakam). Turnovers: 9 (Siakam 4,
Barnes 3, Achiuwa, VanVleet). Steals: 7 (Trent Jr. 4, Clowney 1-6 5-6 7, Miller 10-16 6-7 30, Bediako 3-9 0-0 6,
Barnes 3). Technical Fouls: Anunoby, 6:40 fourth; coach Bradley 6-9 0-0 12, Sears 1-5 0-0 3, Griffen 2-6 0-0 6,
Gurley 4-7 3-4 12, Jah.Quinerly 1-4 0-0 2, Welch 0-2 0-0
Jamaal Magloire, 6:40 fourth.
0, Pringle 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-64 14-17 78. Canadiens 4, Jets 1 CLIVE BRUNSKILL/GETTY IMAGES
H IGH SC H OOL S MILWAUKEE MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS Vanderbilt (9-9) WINNIPEG ............................... 0 1 0 — 1
Connaughton 30:25 3-9 1-2 3-8 3 0 10 Millora-Brown 1-1 0-0 2, Smith 0-2 0-0 0, Stute 1-6 0-0 3, MONTREAL .............................. 0 3 1 — 4 Novak Djokovic, who was unable to participate in Melbourne last
Portis 34:36 5-12 2-2 2-12 1 2 12 Lawrence 4-16 11-12 20, Thomas 0-6 0-0 0, Wright 5-15
BOYS’ BASKETBALL Lopez 29:22 7-12 2-2 0-1 1 3 19 2-2 15, Manjon 5-10 1-2 11, Dort 2-3 1-2 5, Shelby 0-5 1-2 SECOND PERIOD year because of his vaccine status, cruised to an easy win Tuesday.
Private Allen 32:56 8-13 5-5 0-5 1 2 25 1, Ansong 2-5 0-0 4, Dia 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 22-73 16-20 66. Scoring: 1, Winnipeg, Connor 22 (Morrissey, Ehlers),
Bullis 69, Landon 48 Holiday 35:20 16-26 0-0 1-6 7 4 37 Halftime: Alabama 36-26. Three-point goals: Alabama 1:24 (pp). 2, Montreal, Dadonov 3 (Dvorak, Barron), 7:46.
St. John’s 72, DeMatha 62 Ingles 31:15 4-5 5-6 0-6 8 2 15 8-30 (Miller 4-9, Griffen 2-5, Gurley 1-3, Sears 1-5, 3, Montreal, Hoffman 8 (Barron, Dach), 9:28. 4, Mon-
Maryland Nwora 19:21 1-5 4-4 0-3 0 4 7 Bediako 0-1, Jah.Quinerly 0-1, Welch 0-2, Clowney 0-4), treal, Dadonov 4 (Dvorak, Savard), 13:31.
Broadneck 56, Chesapeake 33 Hill 13:38 2-4 0-0 0-0 1 1 5 Vanderbilt 6-33 (Wright 3-9, Dia 1-2, Stute 1-5, Law-
Blake 65, Sherwood 57 Carter 7:05 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 rence 1-6, Ansong 0-1, Manjon 0-1, Smith 0-1, Shelby THIRD PERIOD VIRGINIA CONCORDE DISTRICT GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Damascus 63, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 49 Green 6:02 0-0 0-0 0-1 2 0 0 0-4, Thomas 0-4). Fouled out: Clowney, Millora-Brown. Scoring: 5, Montreal, Anderson 12 (Matheson, Dach),

Warhawks’ slowdown
Meade 56, Severna Park 48 TOTALS 240 46-86 19-21 6-42 24 19 130 Rebounds: Alabama 43 (Miller 10), Vanderbilt 40 4:19.
Oxon Hill 72, Douglass 66 (Wright 6). Assists: Alabama 10 (Bradley, Sears 3),
Quince Orchard 53, Paint Branch 41 Percentages: FG .535, FT .905. 3-Point Goals: 19-39, .487 Vanderbilt 8 (Lawrence, Wright 3). Total fouls: Alabama SHOTS ON GOAL
South Lakes 79, Westfield 45 (Holiday 5-10, Allen 4-5, Lopez 3-5, Connaughton 3-6, 20, Vanderbilt 19. WINNIPEG ............................... 6 10 10 — 26
Whitman 82, Watkins Mill 37 Ingles 2-3, Hill 1-3, Nwora 1-3, Portis 0-4). Team MONTREAL ............................ 10 11 7 — 28

is e≠ective in showdown
Virginia Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Lopez
Power-play opportunities: Winnipeg 1 of 2; Montreal 0 of
Crofton 67, North County 53 2, Holiday, Ingles, Nwora). Turnovers: 11 (Portis 3,
3. Goalies: Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 22-11-1 (28 shots-24
Gaithersburg 72, Clarksburg 52 Holiday 2, Allen, Carter, Connaughton, Green, Lopez,
Nwora). Steals: 5 (Holiday 2, Allen, Connaughton,
NCAA women saves). Montreal, Montembeault 9-7-2 (25-24). A:
Hayfield 85, Falls Church 37 21,105 (21,288). T: 2:24.
Justice 57, Mt. Vernon 41 Nwora). Technical Fouls: Bucks, 9:03 second; Lopez, 6:40 TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Loudoun County 68, Park View 51 fourth; Lopez, 6:40 fourth.
Marshall 52, Langley 45 EAST
McLean 54, Herndon 41 Spurs 106, Nets 98 Tulsa 69, Temple 57 Maple Leafs 5, Panthers 4 (OT) “I mean, it’s no fun,” Coach
Meridian 67, Manassas Park 32
Osbourn 58, Freedom (South Riding) 54 Brooklyn ............................. 15 36 17 30 — 98
UConn 103, Seton Hall 58
Villanova 76, Xavier 38
FLORIDA ............................ 3
TORONTO .......................... 2
1
1
0
1
0 — 4
1 — 5 MADISON 20, Kirsten Stone said of her team’s
OAKTON 15
Patriot 80, Osbourn Park 44 San Antonio ........................ 27 24 25 30 — 106
Robinson 65, West Springfield 55 SOUTH FIRST PERIOD style. “But this was a big game,
BROOKLYN MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
South County 66, Lake Braddock 57
Harris 16:58 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Tulane 64, UCF 50 Scoring: 1, Florida, Verhaeghe 21 (Ekblad), 1:52. 2, and I think they did really well.”
Stone Bridge 66, Independence 51
Thomas Jefferson 60, Lewis 48 O'Neale 21:08 2-8 0-0 0-2 0 3 5 MIDWEST
Toronto, Hunt 3 (Rielly, Aston-Reese), 2:38. 3, Florida,
Lundell 6 (Barkov), 12:34 (sh). 4, Toronto, Kerfoot 7
Coaches universally attest to
Claxton 28:18 7-11 1-1 3-11 4 6 15
West Potomac 58, Woodson 57
Wootton 64, Kennedy 48 Curry 31:25 6-16 3-3 3-7 2 4 16 Chicago St. 108, Olivet 50 (Jarnkrok, Liljegren), 15:10 (pp). 5, Florida, Mahura 4 BY S PENCER N USBAUM the grind of district play, but few
(Gudas, Denisenko), 18:04.
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Simmons
Thomas
34:17 4-10 2-2 1-10 11 4 10
29:53 6-12 3-4 0-2 1 3 15
have a better claim than the six
SECOND PERIOD
Private Warren 24:07 7-13 5-6 0-5 0 1 19 Madison junior Avery Griepen- Concorde programs, even though
Scoring: 6, Florida, Barkov 12 (Reinhart, Montour), 1:41
Bishop Ireton 79, St. Mary’s Ryken 74 Sumner
Morris
18:00
13:05
4-6 4-4 0-4 1 1 13
1-5 2-2 1-3 2 3 4 No. 5 Connecticut 103, (pp). 7, Toronto, Matthews 22 (Nylander, Marner), 19:57 trog crossed half court, stood on Tuesday’s second half more close-
Flint Hill 55, Madeira 22
Georgetown Visitation 72, Maret 54 Watanabe 12:18 0-2 0-0 1-1 0 0 0
Seton Hall 58
(pp). Oakton’s Cougar logo and held ly resembled a walk-through than
Mills 5:56 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Seton School 55, Episcopal 41
Spencerville Adventist 40, Washington Christian 36 Sharpe 4:35 0-0 1-2 1-4 1 0 1 CONNECTICUT .................... 25 25 27 26 — 103
THIRD PERIOD the ball at her hip. The halt in the a crucial battle for seeding.
Maryland TOTALS 240 37-88 21-24 10-49 22 26 98 SETON HALL ........................ 9 13 20 16 — 58 Scoring: 8, Toronto, Nylander 23 (Marner, Giordano),
5:59.
action, with four minutes left in “We’ve practiced hard for every
Bethesda-Chevy Chase 66, Damascus 24
Broadneck 46, Chesapeake 41 Percentages: FG .420, FT .875. 3-Point Goals: 3-23, .130 Connecticut (16-2)
OVERTIME
the third quarter Tuesday night, game,” said Dixon, who led her
(Sumner 1-1, O’Neale 1-4, Curry 1-7, Morris 0-2, Warren Edwards 9-16 3-5 21, Juhasz 8-11 2-7 22, Griffin 8-12 4-4
Churchill 60, Blair 14
0-2, Harris 0-3, Thomas 0-4). Team Rebounds: 4. Team 22, Lopez-Senechal 6-15 3-4 17, Muhl 1-5 2-2 4, Scoring: 9, Toronto, Nylander 24 (Timmins, Tavares),
wasn’t planned, nor was it aes- team with 10 points. “We know
DuVal 57, Bladensburg 11
Glen Burnie 56, South River 44 Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 8 (Claxton 4, Simmons Bettencourt 2-2 0-0 4, DeBerry 5-8 1-1 13, Totals 39-69
15-23 103
1:53. thetically pleasing. But it spelled our district is really good, espe-
2, Sharpe, Thomas). Turnovers: 21 (Simmons 7, Claxton
Northeast 63, Arundel 50
Sherwood 65, Blake 28 3, Curry 3, O’Neale 2, Harris, Morris, Sharpe, Sumner, Seton Hall (13-6) SHOTS ON GOAL the beginning of the end for rival cially this year.”
Bembry 1-3 0-0 2, Pinkney 0-1 2-2 2, Cooks 2-5 0-0 4,
Southern 46, Huntingtown 44 Thomas, Warren). Steals: 10 (Simmons 4, Harris 2,
Claxton, Curry, Thomas, Warren). Technical Fouls: Mor- Hagans 2-9 0-0 4, Park-Lane 4-15 1-2 9, Allesch 0-4 0-0 0,
FLORIDA ............................ 7 8 4 0 — 19 Oakton, which fell to the visiting For years, Oakton’s intensity,
Virginia TORONTO ........................ 14 13 9 1 — 37
Briar Woods 60, Woodgrove 49 ris, 5:04 second. Jordan 7-14 3-4 19, Baines 2-5 0-0 4, Keenan 4-11 0-0 12,
Palmieri 0-1 0-0 0, Satterfield 0-3 0-0 0, Wright 1-3 0-0 2, Power-play opportunities: Florida 1 of 3; Toronto 2 of 7. Warhawks, 20-15, in Vienna. high-IQ play and adept outside
Chantilly 59, Centreville 52
Heritage 53, Lightridge 23
SAN ANTONIO MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS Totals 23-74 6-8 58 Goalies: Florida, Bobrovsky 12-13-2 (37 shots-32 saves).
Toronto, Murray 11-5-2 (8-4). A: 18,573 (18,819). T:
“There wasn’t really a plan — shooting have led to deep post-
Langley 41, Marshall 27
K.Johnson
Sochan
37:42 11-26 11-12 1-11 1 2 36
26:12 6-12 2-2 2-4 2 4 16
Three-point goals: Connecticut 10-15 (Juhasz 4-5, Grif-
fin 2-3, Lopez-Senechal 2-3, Muhl 0-2, DeBerry 2-2), 2:42. we just kind of had to go with the season runs and, in 2012, a state
Madison 20, Oakton 15
McLean 51, Herndon 41
Poeltl 21:43 5-7 2-4 2-8 3 4 12 Seton Hall 6-31 (Cooks 0-1, Hagans 0-4, Park-Lane 0-5, groove,” senior Kayla Dixon said title. These days, a non-negligible
Jones 33:09 4-14 4-4 1-4 5 1 13 Allesch 0-3, Jordan 2-6, Keenan 4-10, Palmieri 0-1,
Park View 41, Loudoun County 40 Langford 17:21 1-6 0-0 2-4 2 1 2 Wright 0-1). Assists: Connecticut 29 (Muhl 13), Seton of her team’s play in the second percentage of the area’s coaches
Quince Orchard 42, Paint Branch 37
Robinson 42, West Springfield 21
Richardson 26:35 4-9 0-0 2-4 1 1 9 Hall 14 (Wright 7). Fouled out: Seton Hall Jordan. Predators 2, Blue Jackets 1 half. “There was no need to stress. — including the entire Madison
Collins 23:55 2-5 2-2 1-7 2 3 6 Rebounds: Connecticut 49 (Edwards 11, Juhasz 11),
South Lakes 49, Westfield 39 McDermott 21:20 2-7 0-0 1-4 3 2 4 Seton Hall 38 (Bembry 6, Park-Lane 6). Total fouls: COLUMBUS .............................. 0
NASHVILLE .............................. 0
0
2
1 —
0 —
1
2
All we had to do was move it staff — played or coached under
Branham 19:35 2-10 0-0 0-4 2 2 4 Connecticut 8, Seton Hall 19. Technical Fouls_None. A:
BOCCE
Bates-Diop 6:46 0-0 2-2 0-2 0 1 2 1,296. SECOND PERIOD
around.” Oakton’s Fred Priester, whose 773
Maryland
Blair 2, Kennedy 0
S.Johnson 5:42 0-1 2-2 1-2 2 1 2
Scoring: 1, Nashville, Glass 5 (Forsberg, Duchene), 5:42.
Sixty seconds passed. Grins ap- wins rank second in state history.
TOTALS 240 37-97 25-28 13-54 23 22 106 2, Nashville, Trenin 6 (Jeannot, Josi), 16:55. peared on the faces of the War- But no branch off Priester’s
Percentages: FG .381, FT .893. 3-Point Goals: 7-34, .206
(K.Johnson 3-11, Sochan 2-3, Richardson 1-4, Jones 1-6,
COACHES POLL THIRD PERIOD hawks (13-2, 3-0 Concorde Dis- tree has found as much success as
TR A NS A C T I ON S Collins 0-1, Langford 0-2, McDermott 0-2, Branham 0-5).
RECORD PTS PVS
Scoring: 3, Columbus, Nyquist 9 (Bemstrom, Roslovic), 9:01. trict), who stood around the pe- Madison’s. Over the past 31/2 years,
Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 4
(Poeltl 2, Richardson 2). Turnovers: 15 (Collins 4, Jones 2. Ohio State 18-0 758 3 SHOTS ON GOAL rimeter, passing infrequently. the Warhawks are 78-2 against
MLB 2, Poeltl 2, Sochan 2, K.Johnson, Langford, McDermott, 3.
4.
Stanford
LSU
17-2
18-0
702
699
2
5
COLUMBUS .............................. 9
NASHVILLE ............................ 12
15
11
17 — 41
6 — 29
Madison had led 15-11 at halftime, fellow public schools; in March,
Richardson, S.Johnson). Steals: 12 (K.Johnson 4, Sochan
Baltimore Orioles: Sent INF Lewis Diaz outright to 2, Branham, Collins, McDermott, Poeltl, Richardson, 5. Connecticut 15-2 686 4 Power-play opportunities: Columbus 0 of 3; Nashville 0 having employed a slightly faster they won their third straight state
Norfolk (IL). 6. Indiana 16-1 655 6
Boston Red Sox: Traded RHP Connor Seabold to Colorado
S.Johnson). Technical Fouls: None.
7. Notre Dame 14-2 613 7
of 3. Goalies: Columbus, Tarasov 2-9-1 (28 shots-26
saves). Nashville, Lankinen 5-4-1 (40-39).
version of the same tactic. But title. Even following the gradua-
in exchange for a player to be named later and cash
considerations. Named Shawn Smith general manager,
8.
9.
Utah
Iowa
16-1
14-4
571
529
8
9
this was something else. tion of eight seniors, including
Florida operations. Nuggets 122, Trail Blazers 113 10. Virginia Tech 14-3 473 13 More time elapsed. The home All-Met first-team twins Grace
11. Maryland 14-4 428 11
Kansas City Royals: Agreed to terms with RHP Brandon
Herbold on a minor league contract. PORTLAND ......................... 31 36 22 24 — 113 12. Oklahoma 14-2 409 16 Oilers 5, Kraken 2 crowd booed and pleaded for a and Alayna Arnolie, Madison has
Seattle Mariners: Claimed RHP J.B. Bukauskas off DENVER .............................. 34 39 28 21 — 122 13. UCLA 15-3 399 14 SEATTLE .................................. 1 0 1 — 2 shot clock, which is not used in remained nearly unimpeachable.
waivers from Arizona. Designated OF Alberto Rodriguez 14. Duke 16-1 379 19 EDMONTON ............................. 1 2 2 — 5
for assignment. Signed INFs Gustavo Beltran, Alexander
PORTLAND: Grant 7-15 2-3 18, Hart 2-5 0-0 4, Nurkic 2-9 15. Arizona 14-4 298 10 Virginia public schools. The Mad- Though the Warhawks feel
1-1 6, Lillard 12-20 14-14 44, Simons 5-15 2-2 14, Brown FIRST PERIOD
Garcia, OF Jean Gutierrez, and RHPs Jeter Martinez,
Jose Romero and Dylan Wilson to reserve/futures
III 0-0 0-0 0, Walker 0-0 0-0 0, Watford 1-1 0-0 2,
16.
17.
Michigan
Iowa State
15-3
11-4
285
282
20
15
ison bench clapped and hooted, there hasn’t been a precipitous
Scoring: 1, Seattle, Sprong 15 (Burakovsky, Schultz),
contracts.
Eubanks 3-4 0-0 6, Little 1-4 0-0 2, Johnson 0-1 4-4 4,
Payton II 0-2 0-0 0, Sharpe 5-7 1-1 13. Totals 38-83 24-25
18. North Carolina State 13-5 256 12 3:11 (pp). 2, Edmonton, McDavid 38 (Draisaitl), 14:08. enjoying every second. drop in talent this season, virtual-
Cincinnati Reds: Agreed to terms with SS Richie Martin 19. Gonzaga 17-2 234 21
on a minor league contract.
113. 20. North Carolina 12-5 219 22 SECOND PERIOD With the game clock under 10 ly every player’s role has expand-
Colorado Rockies: Agreed to terms with RHP Nate DENVER: Gordon 3-8 5-5 11, Porter Jr. 9-13 1-1 23, Jokic 21. Oregon 13-5 132 18 Scoring: 3, Edmonton, Ryan 6 (Holloway, Desharnais), seconds, the Warhawks swung ed. With a daunting nondistrict
Hadley on a minor league contract. 13-14 9-10 36, Caldwell-Pope 2-9 5-5 9, Murray 6-15 2-2 22. Arkansas 17-3 121 23
St. Louis Cardinals: Activated RHP James Naile, OF Alec 17, Cancar 0-1 0-0 0, White 0-0 0-0 0, Nnaji 3-8 0-2 7, 23. Illinois 15-3 120 24
3:15. 4, Edmonton, Foegele 5 (Hyman, Draisaitl), 12:30. the ball to Dixon, who hoisted the schedule that included two pri-
Burleson and RHP Jake Woodford. Agreed to terms with
INFs Taylor Motter, Juniel Querecuto and OF Oscar
Brown 5-9 1-3 12, Braun 0-0 0-0 0, Hyland 2-10 0-0 5,
Reed 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 44-88 23-28 122.
24.
25.
Baylor
Texas
12-5
13-5
84
59
17
NR
THIRD PERIOD first shot attempt in nearly five vate schools (their only losses),
Mercado on minor league contracts. Three-point Goals: Portland 13-40 (Lillard 6-12, Grant Others receiving votes: Florida Gulf Coast (17-2) 35,
Scoring: 5, Seattle, Dunn 9 (Wennberg), 0:22. 6, Edmon-
ton, McLeod 6 (Hyman, Holloway), 9:18.
minutes. Warhawks players were Stone challenged her players to
MLS 2-4, Sharpe 2-4, Simons 2-10, Nurkic 1-4, Johnson 0-1, Villanova (16-3) 34, Colorado (15-3) 33, South Florida
SHOTS ON GOAL
downright giddy, even as it work through their discomfort.
Little 0-1, Hart 0-2, Payton II 0-2), Denver 11-32 (Porter (16-4) 31, Florida State (16-4) 18, Middle Tennessee
Columbus Crew: Named Kwame Ampadu and Yoann Jr. 4-6, Murray 3-7, Brown 1-2, Jokic 1-2, Nnaji 1-4, (14-2) 13, Creighton (12-5) 9, St. John’s (14-3) 9, Kansas SEATTLE .................................. 7 14 9 — 30 missed. They had outscored the On Tuesday night, they felt
Damet assistant coaches, Jules Guegen assistant coach
and fitness coach, Maxime Chalier video performance
Hyland 1-7, Gordon 0-1, Caldwell-Pope 0-3). Fouled Out:
None. Rebounds: Portland 35 (Nurkic 10), Denver 42
(12-4) 7, Louisville (14-6) 5, Miami (Fla.) (12-6) 5,
Tennessee (14-6) 5, Southern California (13-4) 2,
EDMONTON ........................... 13 9 11 — 33 Cougars (12-3, 1-2) in the quarter perfectly comfortable.
Power-play opportunities: Seattle 1 of 4; Edmonton 0 of
coach and Phil Boerger goalkeeper coach.
San Jose Earthquakes: Signed D Tommy Thompson to a
(Jokic 12). Assists: Portland 21 (Lillard 8), Denver 32 Cleveland State (16-2) 1, Columbia (15-3) 1, UNLV 3. Goalies: . Edmonton, Campbell 13-8-1 (31-29). A: 1-0. A similar approach to the “We just needed to stay calm,”
(Jokic 10). Total Fouls: Portland 24, Denver 15.
one-year contract. (17-2) 1. 18,183 (18,641). T: 2:26. fourth sealed the win. senior Adeline Suryabudi said.

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ORDERED, this 30 day of December
2022, by the Circuit Court of
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Mary-
land, that the sale of the property
at 10607 Kenilworth Avenue Unit
204, Apt.204, Bethesda, Maryland
20814 mentioned in these pro-
ceedings, made and reported by
Laura H. G. O'Sullivan, et al, Sub-
stitute Trustees, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 31 day of January, 2023
next, provided a copy of this
notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in said County,
once in each of three successive
weeks before the 31 day of Janu-
ary, 2023. next,
The report states the amount of
sale to be $189,200.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, Maryland
January 11, 18, 25, 2023 12408732
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Charles County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CHARLES COUNTY
MARYLAND
DIANA THEOLOGOU,
Substitute Trustee, et. al,
Plaintiffs
v.
CHARLES D. MISTER,
Defendant(s)
Case No. C-08-CV-22-000313
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 28th
day of December, 2022, by the
Circuit Court for CHARLES County,
Maryland, that the sale of the
property at 12928 Jameson Drive,
Waldorf, MD 20602 mentioned in
these proceedings made and
reported Diana Theologou, et. al,
Substitute Trustees, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 31st day of January,
2023, provided a copy of this
notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in said County
once in each of three successive
weeks on or before the 30th day
of January, 2023.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $203,546.91.
Lisa E. Yates/ JT
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Charles County, Maryland
January 11, 18, 25, 2023 12408192
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CHARLES COUNTY
MARYLAND
DIANA THEOLOGOU,
Substitute Trustee, et. al,
Plaintiffs
v.
PEGGY COOK,
Defendant(s)
Case No. C-08-CV-20-000237
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 28th
day of December, 2022, by the
Circuit Court for CHARLES County,
Maryland, that the sale of the
property at 9325 Farewell Court,
LaPlata, MD 20646 mentioned in
these proceedings made and
reported Diana Theologou, et. al,
Substitute Trustees, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 31st day of January,
2023, provided a copy of this
notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in said County
once in each of three successive
weeks on or before the 30th day
of January, 2023.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $310,770.75.
Lisa E. Yates/ JT
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Charles County, Maryland
January 11, 18, 25, 2023 12408556
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR CHARLES COUNTY
MARYLAND
KEITH M. YACKO,
Substitute Trustee, et. al,
Plaintiffs
v.
ESTATE OF DEBORAH BEST, ET. AL.,
Defendant(s)
Case No. C-08-CV-22-000253
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 29th
day of December, 2022, by the
Circuit Court for CHARLES County,
Maryland, that the sale of the
property at 4819 Kingfisher Court,
Waldorf, MD 20603 mentioned in
these proceedings made and
reported Keith M. Yacko, et. al,
Substitute Trustees, be ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown on
or before the 31st day of January,
2023, provided a copy of this
notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in said County
once in each of three successive
weeks on or before the 30th day
of January, 2023.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $219,500.00.
Lisa E. Yates/ JT
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Charles County, Maryland
January 11, 18, 25, 2023 12408813
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1612 Levis Street, NE, Unit A
Washington, DC 20002
Lot 2005 in Square 4077
1612 Levis Street, NE, Unit B
Washington, DC 20002
Lot 2006 in Square 4077
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated December 10, 2018 and recorded
on December 18, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018126158 in
the principal amount of $660,000.00, from Stylistic Design
Developers, Inc., grantor, to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing
that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated December
10, 2018 in the principal amount of $660,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the
mailing and recordation of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute
Trustee removing Daniel Huertas as trustee and appointing
Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”) as successor trustee, an
Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice
of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at
the request of the current noteholder, Substitute Trustee will
sell at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers,
Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC
20015, (Please Note: In the event that the office building
at 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled
Washington, DC sales will take place at the front entrance
door of the Chevy Chase Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 2:40 PM
ALL THOSE LOTS OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District of
Columbia, known as 1612 Levis Street, NE, Unit A, Washington,
DC 20002 and 1612 Levis Street, NE, Unit B, Washington,
DC 20002, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The properties will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the properties subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any.
Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the properties
from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for
obtaining physical possession of the properties.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may
resell the properties at the risk and expense of the defaulting
purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the
properties. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute
Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the properties
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408122
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1435 Girard Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Lot 0052 in Square 2668
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated May 27, 2021 and recorded on June
16, 2021 as Instrument No. 2021081738 in the principal
amount of $250,000.00, from 1435 Girard St, LLC, grantor,
to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated March 27, 2021 in the principal
amount of $250,000.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a
Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel
Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute
Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real
Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current
noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note:
In the event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin
Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will
take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 24, 2023 AT 2:10 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 1435 Girard Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20009, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. Without limitation, the property
will be sold subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated November
30, 2018 and recorded on December 5, 2018 as Instrument
No. 2018121440 and that certain Deed of Trust dated April
30, 2019 and recorded on May 31, 2019 as Instrument No.
2019056977.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 2023 12408254
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Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
2920 Vista Street, NE
Washington, DC 20018
Lot 0819 in Square 4339
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust (“Deed
of Trust”) dated January 5, 2021 and recorded on January 7,
2021 as Instrument No. 2021002706 in the principal amount
of $125,250.00, from Wise Innovations LLC, grantor, to Daniel
Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial Deed of
Trust Note dated January 5, 2021 in the principal amount
of $125,250.00 default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel Huertas as
trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”)
as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage
Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property
or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of
Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW,
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note: In the
event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW
is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will take
place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 3:00 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 2920 Vista Street, NE, Washington, DC
20018, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. Without limitation, the property
will be sold subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated January
5, 2021 and recorded on January 7, 2021 as Instrument No.
2021002705.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408126
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
711 S Street, NW, Unit 2
Washington, DC 20001
Lot 2006 in Square 0417
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust (“Deed
of Trust”) dated October 1, 2021 and recorded on October 1,
2021 as Instrument No. 2021130816 in the principal amount
of $375,000.00, from 711 S Street Ventures, LLC, grantor,
to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated October 1, 2021 in the principal
amount of $375,000.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a
Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel
Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute
Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real
Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current
noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note:
In the event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin
Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will
take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 24, 2023 AT 2:30 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 711 S Street, NW, Unit 2, Washington,
DC 20001, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 2023 12408253
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Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
5413 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
Lot 0078 in Square 3208
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated July 8, 2021 and recorded on July
29, 2021 as Instrument No. 2021102844 in the principal
amount of $1,012,500.00, from 5413 7th St LLC, grantor,
to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated July 8, 2021 in the principal amount
of $1,012,500.00, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel Huertas as
trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”)
as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage
Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property
or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of
Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW,
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note: In the
event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW
is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will take
place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 2:00 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 5413 7th Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20011, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408245
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4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1512 Varnum Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
Lot 0008 in Square 2697
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust (“Deed
of Trust”) dated August 23, 2021 and recorded on November 5,
2021 as Instrument No. 2021146925 in the principal amount
of $732,500.00, from 1512 Varnum Street NW LLC, grantor,
to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated August 23, 2021 in the principal
amount of $732,500.00 default having occurred under the
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a
Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel
Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute
Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real
Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current
noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note:
In the event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin
Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will
take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 2:50 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District of
Columbia, known as 1512 Varnum Street, NW, Washington, DC
20011, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408125
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1605 Kennedy Place, NW
Washington, DC 20011
Lot 0002 in Square 2720W
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated April 27, 2021 and recorded on April
28, 2021 as Instrument No. 2021057397 in the principal
amount of $1,189,300.00, from TTO Company, LLC, grantor, to
Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial Deed
of Trust Note dated April 27, 2021 in the principal amount
of $1,189,300.00 default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel Huertas as
trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”)
as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage
Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property
or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of
Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW,
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note: In the
event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin Ave. NW
is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will take
place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 2:30 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 1605 Kennedy Place, NW, Washington,
DC 20011, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408121
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
413 Atlantic Street, SE
Washington, DC 20032
Lot 0800 in Square 6166
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust (“Deed
of Trust”) dated October 29, 2021 and recorded on November 2,
2021 as Instrument No. 2021145276 in the principal amount
of $1,050,000.00, from 413 ATLANTC ST SE LLC, grantor,
to Daniel Huertas, trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated October 29, 2021 in the principal
amount of $1,050,000.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of a
Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel
Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute
Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real
Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current
noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, (Please Note:
In the event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin
Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington, DC sales will
take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase
Pavilion) on
JANUARY 26, 2023 AT 2:10 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District
of Columbia, known as 413 Atlantic Street, SE, Washington, DC
20032, and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Substitute Trustee and all of the
expenses of this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full
commission on the gross sale price) shall be charged against and
paid out of the forfeited deposit. Substitute Trustee may resell
the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser.
The defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property.
Defaulting purchaser shall be liable to Substitute Trustee for
legal fees and costs incurred by Substitute Trustee in connection
with such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein,
purchaser’s sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a
refund of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and
void and of no effect whatsoever.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in Substitute Trustee’s sole
discretion, to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property
from sale at any time before or at the auction, to extend the
time to receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement,
to waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time for
settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute
Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion
of bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 12, 16, 18, 20, 24, 2023 12408249
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Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
92 R Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Lot 0097 in Square 3101
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) dated March 25, 2022 and recorded on
April 4, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022036839 in the principal
amount of $168,704.60, from 92 R St LLC, grantor, to Russell
S. Drazin (“Trustee”), trustee, securing that certain Commercial
Deed of Trust Note dated March 25, 2022 in the principal
amount of $168,704.60, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of an
Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice
of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at
the request of the current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public
auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335
Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015,
(Please Note: In the event that the office building at 5335
Wisconsin Ave. NW is closed, all scheduled Washington,
DC sales will take place at the front entrance door of the
Chevy Chase Pavilion) on
JANUARY 24, 2023 AT 2:20 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District of
Columbia, known as 92 R Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001,
and more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. Without limitation, the property
will be sold subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated March
25, 2022 and recorded on April 4, 2022 as Instrument No.
2022036838.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be
paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the
date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in the
debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser shall
be responsible for payment of all settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be required
to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, the
deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and all of the expenses of
this sale (including legal fees and costs, and full commission on
the gross sale price) shall be charged against and paid out of the
forfeited deposit. Trustee may resell the property at the risk and
expense of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting
from any resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be
liable to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s sole
remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the
deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no
effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to reject
any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale at any time
before or at the auction, to extend the time to receive bids, to
waive or modify the deposit requirement, to waive or modify the
requirement that interest be paid on the unpaid purchase money,
and/or to extend the period of time for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to Trustee a
memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of
bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
January 10, 12, 16, 18, 20, 2023 12408124
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Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 851 Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County 877
Spotsylvania County 877
Spotsylvania County 879
Culpeper County 879
Culpeper County 881
Orange County 881
Orange County
Samuel I. White, P.C. LAW OFFICES TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200 Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. 10420 FOREST HILL CT, 4110 PARTLOW RD, 9066 JAMES MONROE HIGHWAY, 14420 BLACK HILL ROAD, 5504 BURR HILL RD, 19290 CONSTITUTION HWY,
FREDERICKSBURG, VA 22408 PARTLOW, VA 22534 CULPEPER, VA 22701 RIXEYVILLE, VA 22737 RHOADESVILLE, VA 22542 ORANGE, VA 22960
Virginia Beach, VA 23452 12505 Park Potomac Avenue, 6th Floor
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF Potomac, MD 20854 In execution of a certain Deed
of Trust dated January 11, 2005,
In execution of a certain Deed In execution of a certain Deed of In execution of a certain Deed
of Trust dated December 1, 2003,
In execution of a certain Deed
of Trust dated April 24, 2006, in
In execution of a certain Deed of
Trust dated September 29, 2020,
of Trust dated June 12, 2014, in Trust dated September 19, 2008,
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY (301) 230-5241 in the original principal amount the original principal amount of in the original principal amount in the original principal amount the original principal amount of in the original principal amount
of $164,000.00 recorded in the $257,411.00 recorded in the of $229,500.00 recorded in the of $322,700.00 recorded in the $199,000.00 recorded in the of $166,666.00 recorded in the
KNOWN AS File No. 121944.00159 Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for
Spotsylvania County, Virginia as Spotsylvania County, Virginia as Culpeper County, Virginia as Instru- Culpeper County, Virginia as Instru- Orange County, Virginia as Instru- Orange County, Virginia as Instru-
6113 Granby Road SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE Instrument No. 200500001796 . Instrument No. 140010318 . The ment No. 080006335 . The under- ment No. 030013856 . The under- ment No. 060005199 . The under- ment No. 200005327 . The under-
Derwood, MD 20855 OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY The undersigned Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auction
signed Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction in the
signed Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction in the
signed Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction in the
signed Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction in the
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a 8700 Pine Avenue auction in the front of the Circuit
Court building for Spotsylvania
in the front of the Circuit Court
building for Spotsylvania County,
front of the Circuit Court building
for Culpeper County, at the corner
front of the Circuit Court building
for Culpeper County, at the corner
front of the Circuit Court building
for Orange County, 109 W. Main
front of the Circuit Court building
for Orange County, 109 W. Main
certain Deed of Trust to PHILIP A. LOGRASSO, Trustee(s), Bowie, MD 20715 County, 9107 Judicial Center Lane, 9107 Judicial Center Lane, Spotsyl- of West Davis Street and North of West Davis Street and North Street, Orange, Virginia on Feb- Street, Orange, Virginia on Feb-
Spotsylvania, Virginia on February West Street in the Town of ruary 23, 2023, at 9:00 AM, the
dated May 15, 2002, and recorded among the Land Records (the “Property”) 23, 2023, at 3:00 PM, the property
vania, Virginia on March 23, 2023,
at 4:00 PM, the property described
West Street in the Town of
Culpeper on February 23, 2023, at Culpeper on February 23, 2023, at property described in said Deed
ruary 23, 2023, at 9:00 AM, the
property described in said Deed
described in said Deed of Trust, 10:15 AM, the property described of Trust, located at the above of Trust, located at the above
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 21167, folio Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust, located at the above address, and
in said Deed of Trust, located at the
above address, and more particu-
10:15 AM, the property described
in said Deed of Trust, located at the in said Deed of Trust, located at the address, and more particularly address, and more particularly
698, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement (the “Deed of more particularly described as fol- larly described as follows: above address, and more particu- above address, and more particu- described as follows: described as follows:
lows: larly described as follows: larly described as follows:
Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by Trust”) from Chinunso Julian Iwundu to Jeffrey P. Shiller, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL
ALL THAT LOT LOR OR PARCEL OF ESTATE, TO-WIT: ALL THAT CERTAIN THAT CERTAIN LOT OF LAND ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND OF LAND TOGETHER WITH
instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, Trustee, dated November 18, 2021 and recorded in Book LAND TOGETHER WITH ALL BUILD- TRACT OR PARCEL OR PARCEL OF LOCATED IN SALEM MAGISTERIAL OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH ALL BEING IN THE GORDON DISTRICT, IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND
default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at 46826, at Page 200, among the Land Records of Prince INGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THERE- LAND WITH ALL IMPROVEMENTS DISTRICT, ABOUT FIVE MILES TO IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND
APPURTENANCES THEREUNTO
ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA
FRONTING ALONG VIRGINIA STATE
APPURTENANCES THEREUNTO
ON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THEREON AND ALL RIGHTS AND THE WEST OF THE TOWN OF APPERTAINING, SITUATE IN TAYLOR
the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned George’s County, Maryland, default having occurred under the LEE HILL MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT, PRIVILEGES THERETO APPUR- CULPEPER, VIRGINIA, ON THE BELONGING, LYING AND BEING SIT- ROUTE 692, BEING MORE PARTICU- DISTRICT, ORANGE COUNTY, VIR-
Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at terms thereof, the Substitute Trustee (“Trustee”) will sell at SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
KNOWN AND DESCRIBED AS LOT
TENANT, SITUATE, LYING AND SOUTH SIDE OF STATE HIGHWAY UATE IN CULPEPER COUNTY, VIR-
GINIA, SET FORTH AS "FIRST PAR-
LARLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 11 ON
A PLAT OF A SURVEY OF THE
GINIA, FRONTING ON VIRGINIA
ROUTE #20 NEAR THE ORANGE
BEING IN BERKELEY MAGISTERIAL NO. 29 THAT LOT OF LAND DESIG-
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 public auction at the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, 2, FOREST HILL SUBDIVISION, AS DISTRICT, SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, NATED AS LOT NO. 2 ON A PLAT CEL" IN DEED RECORDED IN DEED PROPERTY OF JOHN F. DOLZER, COUNTY AIRPORT, CONTAINING
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON, located at 14735 Main St., Upper Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval SHOWN ON PLAT SUBDIVISION
DATED JULY 19, 1989, PREPARED
VIRGINIA, AND BEING MORE PAR-
TICULARLY DESCRIBED AS LOT "A",
MADE AUGUST 12, 1959 AND
ATTACHED TO DEED RECORDED IN
BOOK 703 AT PAGE 384 AMONG
THE LAND RECORDS OF SAID
DATED OCTOBER 2, 1973 BY MIL-
TON TERRY ESTES, C.L.S., OF
1.338 ACRES, AND BEING MORE
FULLY SHOWN AND DESCRIBED ON
JANUARY 30, 2023 at 1:30 PM Wing entrance, located on Main St.), on BY JULES L. ELLIOTT C.P.E., AND LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF DEED BOOK 157, PAGE 1, AND COUNTY AND MORE PARTICULAR- RECORD IN THE CLERK‘S OFFICE PLAT OF SURVEY BY STEARNS L.
EVERETT D, GRISSOM, C.L.S. AND ROUTE 783, CONTAINING 1.00 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED LY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: "THAT OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COLEMAN, C.L.S., DATED JUNE 17,
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements January 27, 2023 at 3:00 PM RECORDED IN PLAT FILE 2, AT ACRE OF LAND AS SHOWN ON IN SAID PLAT AS FOLLOWS: "LOT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN 1986 AND RECORDED IN THE
PAGES 525 AND 526 IN THE PLAT OF SURVEY OF "SUTTERS NO. 2, BEGINNING AT B, IN PLAT, DESCRIBED ON A SURVEY BY J. MAP BOOK 4, PAGE 37 AS FOL- CLERK‘S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and described All that Fee-Simple lot of ground and the improvements thereon, CLERK‘S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT WOODS" MADE BY R. WAYNE AN IRON PIPE AND STAKE DRIVEN I. COVELL, C.L.S., DATED APRIL 6, LOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIR-
COURT OF SPOTSYLVANIA COUN- 1961, A PLAT OF WHICH IS THE NORTHERN MARGIN OF VIR- GINIA IN DEED BOOK 412 AT PAGE
as follows: if any, identified as Tax ID No. 14-1623677 and more fully TY, VIRGINIA.
FARMER, C.L.S., DATED OCTOBER
29, 1974, AND RECORDED IN THE
AS A CORNER TO LOT NO. 1, IN
THE SOUTH LINE OF THE STATE RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 160, GINIA STATE ROUTE 692 (25 FOOT 175.
LOT NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR (24), IN BLOCK LETTERED described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- CLERK‘S OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT HIGHWAY NO. 29, THEN WITH LOT PAGE 485, AND AS DESCRIBED BY STRIP TO BE DEDICATED) CORNER
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
COURT OF SPOTSYLVANIA COUN- NO. 1, SOUTH 13° 45‘ EAST 3.05 METES AND BOUNDS IN A DEED WITH LOT 12, THENCE WITH LOT 12,
der’s deposit of ten percent (10%) der’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
"B" IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "SECTION 1, MUNCAST- The Property and improvements, if any, thereupon will be sold of the sale price or ten percent TY, VIRGINIA, IN DEED BOOK 377, CHAINS, = 201.30 FEET TO F, IN DATED APRIL 14, 1981, RECORDED NORTH 68 DEGREES 35 MINUTES
of the sale price or ten percent
PAGE 19. SAID PROPERTY HAV- PLAT, AN IRON ROD AND STAKE IN DEED BOOK 302, PAGE 663. SAID 41 SECONDS WEST 439.02 FEET TO
ER MANOR", AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT in "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and (10%) of the original principal bal-
ING BEEN CONVEYED TO THE DRIVEN AND STONE PILE A COR- PARCEL CONTAINS 69.09 ACRES, A POINT IN THE LINE OF DOLZER; (10%) of the original principal bal-
ance of the subject Deed of Trust, ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
BOOK 105 AT PLAT 12027, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no whichever is lower, in the form GRANTOR(S) HEREIN BY DEED NER TO LOT NO. 1, IN THE LINE OF MORE OR LESS." LESS AND EXCEPT THENCE WITH DOLZER, SOUTH 26
whichever is lower, in the form
DATED JUNE 30, 1977, AND BROWN & VAREAN LUMBER CO., THEREFROM LOT 1 CONTAINING DEGREES 31 MINUTES 35 SEC-
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND. warranty of any kind. of cash or certified funds payable
RECORDED IN THE AFORESAID LAND, THENCE WITH THEIR LINE, 5.412 ACRES AND LOT 2 CON- ONDS WEST 100 FEET TO A POINT of cash or certified funds payable
to the Substitute Trustee must be TAINING 5.000 ACRES AS SHOWN IN THE LINE OF DOLZER, CORNER to the Substitute Trustee must be
CLERK‘S OFFICE IN DEED BOOK SOUTH 73° 25‘ EAST 1.53 CHAINS,
THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO AN IRS RIGHT OF REDEMP- Terms of Sale: A deposit of $16,000.00 by certified check. present at the time of the sale.
The balance of the purchase price 420, AT PAGE 303. PARCEL 2: ALL = 100.98 FEET TO E, IN PLAT, AN ON PLAT OF SURVEY PREPARED WITH LOT 10; THENCE WITH LOT present at the time of the sale.
The balance of the purchase price
TION. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten will be due within fifteen (15) days THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF IRON ROD DRIVEN AND STONE PILE BY BRIAN THROSSELL, L.S., DATED
MAY 1, 2000 AND ATTACHED TO
10, SOUTH 68 DEGREES 33 MIN-
UTES 03 SECONDS EAST 444.51 will be due within fifteen (15) days
LAND WITH ALL BUILDINGS AND IN THE SAID LUMBER COMPANY
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Prince of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
deposit may be forfeited to IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND LINE, AND CORNER TO LOT NO. DEED RECORDED IN DEED BOOK FEET TO A POINT IN THE NORTH- of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
deposit may be forfeited to
without either express or implied warranty or representation, George’s County. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase Trustee. Time is of the essence. ALL RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES
APPURTENANT THERETO, SITUATE,
3, AND ANDREW TAYLOR‘S LOT,
THENCE WITH LOT NO. 3, NORTH
720 AT PAGE 665 AMONG THE
AFORESAID COUNTY LAND
ERN MARGIN OF SAID ROUTE 692
(25 FOOT STRIP TO BE DEDICATED); Trustee. Time is of the essence.
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a money at the rate of 13% from the date of sale to the date If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale LYING AND BEING IN COURTLAND 14° 30‘ WEST 3.865 CHAINS, = RECORDS. LEAVING A RESIDUE THENCE WITH THE NORTHERN If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale
MARGIN OF SAID ROUTE 692 (25
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition, funds are received in the office of the Trustee. There will be shall be entitled to a return of the MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT, SPOTSYL-
VANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
255.0 FEET TO C, IN PLAT, A STAKE
DRIVEN ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF
PARCEL OF 58.678 ACRES, MORE
OR LESS AND HAVING A CULPEPER FOOT STRIP TO BE DEDICATED) shall be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser may, deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials, no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are if provided by the terms of the DESCRIBED AS LOT B, SUTTER‘S SAID HIGHWAY, A CORNER TO LOT COUNTY TAX MAP NO. 6-22. NORTH 33 DEGREES 22 MINUTES
if provided by the terms of the
29 SECONDS EAST 100 FEET TO
liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer- tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore- WOODS, AS SHOWN ON PLAT BY
R. WAYNE FARMER, C.L.S., DATED
NO. 3, IN THE EAST EDGE OF THE
ROADWAY LEADING INTO LOT NO.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50 der’s deposit of ten percent (10%) closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest cancellation fee from the Substi- OCTOBER 21, 1974, AND RECORD- 2, FROM THE SAID HIGHWAY, of the sale price or ten percent TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- cancellation fee from the Substi-
ED IN THE CLERK‘S OFFICE OF THENCE WITH THE SOUTH SIDE
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE tute Trustee, but shall have no
THE CIRCUIT COURT OF SPOTSYL- OF SAID HIGHWAY, SOUTH 75° 10‘
(10%) of the original principal bal- der’s deposit of ten percent (10%) tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort- ance of the subject Deed of Trust, of the sale price or ten percent further recourse against the Mort-
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort- VANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN DEED WEST 1.30 CHAINS, = 85.80 FEET whichever is lower, in the form (10%) of the original principal bal- gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort-
BOOK 377, PAGE 47. SAID PROP- TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING AND
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
ERTY HAVING BEEN CONVEYED TO CONTAINING 0.455 OF AN ACRE,
of cash or certified funds payable
to the Substitute Trustee must be
ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
whichever is lower, in the form
gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
the Trustee’s memorandum of the Trustee’s memorandum of
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges foreclosure sale and contract to THE GRANTOR(S) HEREIN IN DEED MORE OR LESS." present at the time of the sale. of cash or certified funds payable foreclosure sale and contract to
DATED OCTOBER 27, 1983, AND
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA and ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter purchase real property is available
for viewing at RECORDED IN THE AFORESAID
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- The balance of the purchase price
will be due within fifteen (15) days
to the Substitute Trustee must be
present at the time of the sale.
purchase real property is available
for viewing at
der’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. assumed by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners www.bwwsales.com. Additional CLERK‘S OFFICE IN DEED BOOK
599, AT PAGE 673. of the sale price or ten percent of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s The balance of the purchase price www.bwwsales.com. Additional
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser terms, if any, to be announced at (10%) of the original principal bal- deposit may be forfeited to will be due within fifteen (15) days terms, if any, to be announced at
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary stamps,
the sale and the Purchaser may
be given the option to execute the
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
whichever is lower, in the form
Trustee. Time is of the essence.
If the sale is set aside for any
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
deposit may be forfeited to
the sale and the Purchaser may
be given the option to execute the
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by the contract of sale electronically. of the sale price or ten percent of cash or certified funds payable reason, the Purchaser at the sale Trustee. Time is of the essence. contract of sale electronically.
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance of purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical This is a communication from a (10%) of the original principal bal-
ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
to the Substitute Trustee must be
present at the time of the sale.
shall be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale This is a communication from a
the purchase price with interest at 2.5% per annum from the possession of the Property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or
debt collector and any information
obtained will be used for that pur- whichever is lower, in the form The balance of the purchase price if provided by the terms of the shall be entitled to a return of the debt collector and any information
obtained will be used for that pur-
deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN damage to the Property from the date of sale forward. Additional pose. of cash or certified funds payable
to the Substitute Trustee must be
will be due within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50 if provided by the terms of the pose.
DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no terms may be announced at the time of sale. The sale is subject to seller confir- present at the time of the sale. deposit may be forfeited to cancellation fee from the Substi- Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore- The sale is subject to seller confir-
mation. Substitute Trustee: Equity tute Trustee, but shall have no closure Sale, be entitled to a $50 mation. Substitute Trustee: Equity
abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes, Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
The balance of the purchase price
will be due within fifteen (15) days
Trustee. Time is of the essence.
If the sale is set aside for any further recourse against the Mort- cancellation fee from the Substi- Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
public charges and special or regular assessments will be made If the Trustee is unable to convey good and marketable title, Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s reason, the Purchaser at the sale gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort- tute Trustee, but shall have no Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited 23229. deposit may be forfeited to shall be entitled to a return of the gagee’s attorney. A form copy of further recourse against the Mort- 23229.
Trustee. Time is of the essence. deposit paid. The Purchaser may, the Trustee’s memorandum of gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort-
will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser For more information contact:
If the sale is set aside for any if provided by the terms of the foreclosure sale and contract to gagee’s attorney. A form copy of For more information contact:
BWW Law Group, LLC, attorneys for BWW Law Group, LLC, attorneys for
regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 Execu- reason, the Purchaser at the sale Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore- purchase real property is available
for viewing at
the Trustee’s memorandum of
foreclosure sale and contract to Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 Execu-
shall be entitled to a return of the closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may Trustee for application against all expenses, attorneys’ fees and tive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD
20852, 301-961-6555, deposit paid. The Purchaser may, cancellation fee from the Substi- www.bwwsales.com. Additional purchase real property is available tive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD
20852, 301-961-6555,
become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of the full commission on the sale price of the above-scheduled website: www.bwwsales.com. if provided by the terms of the
Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort-
terms, if any, to be announced at
the sale and the Purchaser may
for viewing
www.bwwsales.com. Additional
at
website: www.bwwsales.com.
the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses of this sale VA-359430-1.
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50 gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort- be given the option to execute the terms, if any, to be announced at VA-358178-2.

stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs (including attorneys’ fees and the full commission of this sale) January 18, 25, 2023 12406958 cancellation fee from the Substi- gagee’s attorney. A form copy of contract of sale electronically. the sale and the Purchaser may
be given the option to execute the
January 18, 25, 2023 12406952
shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
tute Trustee, but shall have no the Trustee’s memorandum of This is a communication from a MARYLAND
incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is TRUSTEE’S SALE OF further recourse against the Mort- foreclosure sale and contract to debt collector and any information
contract of sale electronically.

of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be The Trustee may then re-advertise and resell the Property at 10416 LAUREL RIDGE WAY, gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort-
gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
purchase real property is available
for viewing at
obtained will be used for that pur- This is a communication from a
debt collector and any information
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FREDERICKSBURG, VA 22408 pose. The sale is subject to seller
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may avail the Trustee’s memorandum of www.bwwsales.com. Additional confirmation. obtained will be used for that pur-
HYATTSVILLE-BR for rent $680/mo +
defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable himself of any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting In execution of a certain Deed foreclosure sale and contract to
purchase real property is available
terms, if any, to be announced at
the sale and the Purchaser may Substitute Trustee: Equity
pose. The sale is subject to seller
$600 deposit. Clean and quiet home.
of Trust dated November 4, 2021, confirmation.
attorneys' fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred, purchaser without re-selling the Property. In the event of a resale, in the original principal amount for viewing at be given the option to execute the Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt Lights, water, cable TV, parking incl.
www.bwwsales.com. Additional contract of sale electronically. Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA Substitute Trustee: Equity Call 240-476-9245 No text
if the Substitute Trustee's have filed the appropriate motion with the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the of $704,847.00 recorded in the
terms, if any, to be announced at 23229. For more information con- Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal surplus, if any, even if such surplus results from improvements Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for
Spotsylvania County, Virginia as the sale and the Purchaser may
be given the option to execute the
This is a communication from a
debt collector and any information
tact: BWW Law Group, LLC, attor-
neys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003
Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA
23229.
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contract of sale electronically.
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Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003 Execu-
tive Blvd, Suite 101, Rockville, MD
obtained will be used for that pur-
identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified with all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the 9107 Judicial Center Lane, Spot- pose. The sale is subject to seller
Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA
VA-354895-1. 20852, 301-961-6555, 245
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or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable resale. sylvania, Virginia on February 23,
2023, at 3:00 PM, the property
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596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
417 Belton Road
Silver Spring, MD 20901
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to MICHAEL LYON, Trustee(s), dated
September 23, 2015, and recorded among the Land Records
of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 51148, folio
158, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of
the land records of the Circuit
Court for the County of Fairfax
as Deed Book 22531, Page 0931,
the undersigned appointed Sub-
stitute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the County of Fairfax,
on the courthouse steps at the
front of the Circuit Court building
for the County of Fairfax located
at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fair-
fax, Virginia on March 21, 2023
at 11:00 AM, the property with
improvements to wit:
FAIR HAVEN
LT 15 BLK 3 SEC 1
Tax Map No. 083-3-09-03-0015
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
and recorded in the Clerk's Office
of the Circuit Court of the County
of Spotsylvania, Virginia in Instru-
ment No. 210012836, the under-
signed Substitute Trustees will sell
at public auction on February 8,
2023, at 3:00 p.m., in front of the
building housing the Spotsylvania
County Circuit Court, 9107 Judicial
Center Lane, at the Circuit Court
entrance, Spotsylvania, VA 22553,
the property designated as
Lot 20, Section One-B, Pod at Lee‘s
Parke, as shown on plat of subdi-
vision attached to deed of ease-
ment recorded in Instrument
#200500015728, among the Spot-
sylvania County Land Records. Sale
is subject to all prior liens, ease-
ments, restrictions, covenants,
and conditions, if any, of record,
or other matters which would be
disclosed by an accurate survey or
inspection of the premises.
TERMS: CASH. A deposit of
$40,500.00 or 10% of the sale
price, whichever is lower, will be
required of the successful bidder
at time of sale. Prior to the sale,
to the Substitute Trustee must be
present at the time of the sale.
The balance of the purchase price
will be due within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s
deposit may be forfeited to
Trustee. Time is of the essence.
If the sale is set aside for any
reason, the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
if provided by the terms of the
Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
cancellation fee from the Substi-
tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort-
gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort-
gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
the Trustee’s memorandum of
foreclosure sale and contract to
purchase real property is available
for viewing at
www.bwwsales.com. Additional
terms, if any, to be announced at
the sale and the Purchaser may
be given the option to execute the
contract of sale electronically.
This is a communication from a
ment No. 190010228 . The under-
signed Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction in the
front of the Circuit Court building
for Stafford County, 1300 Court-
house Road, Stafford, Virginia on
February 23, 2023, at 12:00 PM, the
property described in said Deed
of Trust, located at the above
address, and more particularly
described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL
OF LAND TOGETHER WITH THE
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITU-
ATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE
COUNTY OF STAFFORD, COMMON-
WEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND MORE
PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOL-
LOWS: LOT 350, PAGE TWO, SEC-
TION 3-B, SUMMERWOOD, AS THE
SAME APPEARS DULY DEDICATED,
PLATTED AND RECORDED IN PLAT
BOOK 32, AT PAGE 245 AND 246,
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of ten percent (10%)
of the sale price or ten percent
(10%) of the original principal bal-
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Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by

type: Conventional. Reference
Number 22-292410.
interested bidders will be required
to register with and must present
debt collector and any information
obtained will be used for that pur-
ance of the subject Deed of Trust,
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In execution of a Deed of Trust
Land Situated in the County of Montgomery in the State of MD in the original principal amount
of $309,990.00, with an annual
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without either express or implied warranty or representation, auction all that property located
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a in the County of Prince William,
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Spotsylvania, Virginia on February
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described in said Deed of Trust,
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of chaos cooking
Its fans are ditching recipes, pushing past boundaries and embracing strangeness
BY RACHEL BARON | Special to The Washington Post

D
epending on her mood, Ethaney Lee is a chaotic cook.
A digital creator and home cook who posts about
food on her Instagram @tenderherbs, Lee will often
channel her emotions into dishes such as the pavlova she
wrote about recently for the site Cup of Jo. To Lee, a simple
pavlova’s snowy peaks of whipped sugar and egg white offer a
blank canvas for dramatic splashes of red and blue, the latter
of which Lee achieves with butterfly pea extract.
Lee’s pavlova reflects a subtle but noticeable shift in the
food world toward excess, strangeness and borderline reck-
lessness. Bakers such as Julie Saha and Aimee France es-
chewed acetate collars and neatly piped rosettes for teetering,
overdecorated cakes in a tangle of clashing colors at the recent
Brooklyn event “Chaotic Cakes, a Pop Up.” Deb Perelman of
the popular recipe blog Smitten Kitchen talks about making a
Strawberry Brita Cake because she “wanted berry cake chaos,”
while plant-based chef Kate Ray described her cooking style
as “Punchy chaotic many-textured many-choices vegetable-
remix food” in her newsletter, Soft Leaves, in July.
Framed in this way, chaotic cooking openly subverts main-
stream rules for how to cook and what tastes or looks good, in
a way that’s both playful and intelligent. To cook chaotically
means to channel the challenges and the possibilities of daily
SEE CHAOS COOKING ON E6

As grief fades, simple joys return. Like soup. How to cook

EAT VORACIOUSLY
A dish of beef and onions can
somehow make you feel
homesick for a place where
you’ve never lived. E3
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Orange and Cashew Cabbage Salad With
Sesame Dressing E2
Ginger Garlic Chicken Noodle Soup E2
Tok Seel (Seared White Beans With Pumpkin
Seeds) E8
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BY TAMAR HASPEL
Special to The Washington Post
Can I tell you about my mom?
I want to tell you about a soup, too, but
the soup is important only because my
mom, the most un-momlike of moms,
died a few weeks before I made it.
My sister-in-law called her “the mom
who fell to Earth.” She was born before
the autism spectrum was a thing; she
just realized, early on, that her mind
worked differently from other people’s.
She told me stories of figuring out, by
rote, how other people expressed emo-
tions, and how to respond appropriately.
It didn’t always work. When I was a
kid and experienced the inevitable kid
tragedies, she was always there with
some godforsaken constructive sugges-
tion. It was maddening. And since she
could remember, verbatim, everything
she read, her suggestions often took the
SEE GRIEF SOUP ON E8
RECIPE
Coconut Seafood Soup With Soba E8
fish and not
mess it up
BY BECKY KRYSTAL
Of all the theoretically “simple” foods
that people may be intimidated to cook,
fish is at the top of the list. The most
common pitfall is overcooking it. That fish
is not necessarily cheap only adds more
anxiety to the situation.
“The real challenge in cooking both fish
and meat is to get the texture right,” Har-
old McGee says in “On Food and Cooking.”
The goal is to make sure you don’t over-
heat them to the point that their proteins
begin to shrink and push out moisture.
That happens at a lower temperature in
fish than in meat, McGee says. Most fish
reach that shrinking point at 120 degrees
and dry out around 140 degrees, though
REY LOPEZ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST there is some variability depending on the
After her mother died, Tamar Haspel writes, she put minimal effort into cooking. type. McGee says the majority of fish are
Then one day, she decided to make this soup — a sign that grief was receding. SEE FISH ON E4
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This chicken soup from Smitten Kitchen is a keeper
If you cook
regularly, you
probably have a
stash of recipes
that you consider
“keepers” — the
Ann ones you make
Maloney again and again
DINNER IN because you love
MINUTES the flavor and
they always turn
out just right.
But do you have 100 such
recipes? Me neither.
For her third cookbook,
“Smitten Kitchen Keepers,” food
blogger and author Deb
Perelman decided to gather only
recipes that met those stringent
criteria.
“I realized how much I
wanted to be able to hand my
kids a collection of recipes
specifically written with making
them forever in mind,” she
writes in the introduction.
Perelman began her Smitten
Kitchen cooking site in 2006,
and in the years since, she has
amassed a loyal fan base with
her comforting, straightforward
cooking. She has more than
11/2 million followers on her
delicious Instagram. (If you love
to cook or are just learning to
cook and you’re not following
her on social media, do yourself
a favor and start.)
She’s also gathered lots of
knowledge and real-life
experience. Perelman claims to
have read every one of the
350,000 comments posted to
her recipes because she wants to
anticipate the challenges home
cooks might face. For this
cookbook, she writes that she
worked through more than 500
recipe ideas to arrive at these
100 sweet and savory dishes.
The appeal of Perelman’s
recipes is that she makes them
at home, in her small New York
kitchen, and her ingredients are,
for most folks, easily accessible.
When I read that this soup
was the first recipe she
developed for the cookbook, I
decided to try it. She says it is
her go-to soup on a chilly
weeknight.
The soup provides fine
examples of what makes her
recipes so popular.
Often, she includes tips that
are transferrable to cooking in
general. In this recipe, she notes
that instead of buying chicken
stock, she simmers boneless,
skinless chicken thighs — fattier
and more flavorful than the
breast meat — with aromatics to
A colorful cabbage salad that has evolved along with my eating habits
We were having
Jim lunch when all of a
Webster sudden I realized
WEEKNIGHT that I had applied
VEGETARIAN for a job and was
already in the
interview.
Food editor Joe Yonan and I
were catching up, talking about
projects and his plans for an
upcoming leave, during which I’d
be helping the Food team more. I
told him that during his last leave,
I missed the Weeknight
Vegetarian recipe column and
that we should think of ways to
keep it going while he was out this
time.
That’s when he asked me about
my current eating habits, and I
realized that I had just
inadvertently volunteered. I was
happy about it, really. I had
passively suggested I could do
something that I had actively
considered asking to do; but I had
been a little nervous about how to
propose it.
I’m not a vegetarian, but I have
been adding more meatless
dishes to my repertoire, driven
equally by matters of health,
convenience and conscience. I
also enjoy them as a challenge.
Like many people, I’ve never been
predisposed to liking most
vegetables, and I tend to get a
charge out of it when I make
something plant-based that I
genuinely enjoy. Joe’s column has
been a source for a lot of those
discoveries, and recipes such as
Mushroom-Walnut “Meatballs”;
Sweet, Spicy and Crunchy Korean
Tofu; and Spicy Sesame Chile
Noodles are all on repeat in my
rotation. Plus all the beans, of
course. (Find those recipes at
washingtonpost.com/recipes.)
So my desire to make sure this
column didn’t go on hiatus in
Joe’s absence was sort of selfish.
Now I get to do the research,
testing and sampling to make it
happen. I hope we’ll all benefit.
The dish I told Joe about over
lunch was a salad that I’ve made
for a few years and became my
fallback through most of the
pandemic. It’s a cabbage salad,
which is funny because I hated
cabbage when I was a kid. It’s
based on a famous Wolfgang Puck
creation: the Chinois chicken
salad. I’ve had it at various Puck
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create a base. Then she adds the
ginger and garlic to give what
would be a mild, comforting
soup some oomph.
She also frequently shares a
little something that’s easy to do
but gives the dish a bit of polish.
In this case, the soup is finished
at the table with a quick sauce
made of Chinkiang vinegar, soy
sauce, sesame oil and chili crisp
for heat.
And Perelman anticipates
restaurants over the years, and I
found that sometimes I loved it
and sometimes I didn’t. At first,
that confused me, but then I
started paying attention. I
realized that I liked the salad
when the cabbage was thinly
sliced, and not so much when it
was cut into chunky bits. I started
thinking about all the cabbage
that was put in front of me when I
was a kid. It was always chunky.
Could I really have not hated
cabbage so much as the way it was
cut?
I don’t know, but I do know
that no cabbage goes through my
kitchen without being dispatched
into slim, sturdy ribbons.
Eventually, I looked up Puck’s
recipe online, and I made it. It’s
great. But over the years, I’ve
simplified and adapted it to my
tastes. I pared down the dressing
ingredient list. I changed the
mango to orange. I subbed out
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issues that might arise for home
cooks. For example, she notes
that you should add the noodles
right before serving or they will
keep “drinking” the broth until
there is little left.
(I live in a house of two, and
this soup makes 12 cups, so that
cued me to think about this
issue as I was cooking. I knew
we would not eat this in one
sitting, so I cooked the noodles
separately, drained them and
radicchio for red cabbage. I added
red onion.
I never used as much chicken
as he called for, and sometime in
the past couple years, I stopped
putting chicken in it altogether.
And I didn’t miss it. To me, this
salad is about the heft of the
cabbage, the cool of the lettuce,
the crunch of the cashews and
wonton chips, the brightness of
the citrus and the umami bass
note of the sesame-soy dressing.
So that’s what my eating habits
are these days: things I can put
together quickly with minimal
cooking and even less thinking,
where the inclusion of an animal
protein isn’t assumed but a
would-I-even-miss-it
afterthought. And over the next
few months, I hope I feature a
recipe or two that enters your
rotation on repeat.
Joe Yonan will return in May.
added them to the serving bowls
before ladling over the soup.
Then I stored the noodles and
soup separately in the
refrigerator.)
I made the soup twice, loved
it and then asked a friend to try
it out as well. She served it at a
dinner party and got raves all
around.
Is it a keeper? Yes. And so is
this cookbook.
TOM MCCORKLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY GINA NISTICO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Orange and Cashew Cabbage Salad
With Sesame Dressing
4 servings (8 cups)
Any green cabbage works well as the base of this salad; varieties such
as napa and Savoy will be slightly more tender than standard cabbage,
so pick which one you like best.
Total time: 20 mins
The dressing can be kept refrigerated for up to 1 week.
From staff writer Jim Webster, inspired by a Wolfgang Puck recipe.
Ingredients
For the dressing
l 2 tablespoons soy sauce
l 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
l 2 tablespoons sesame oil
l 2 tablespoons mustard,
preferably Chinese or Dijon
l 1 tablespoon honey
l 1 tablespoon sesame paste, may
substitute tahini
l 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
l 1 teaspoon chili oil, or more to
taste
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Ginger Garlic Chicken Noodle Soup
6 to 8 servings (makes about 12 cups)
To accommodate varying spice preferences, serve the chili crisp
separately at the table, so people can add as much as they like.
Total time: 35 mins
Refrigerate for up to 4 days (see NOTES).
Chinkiang vinegar, also called black rice vinegar, can be found at
well-stocked supermarkets, Asian markets and online.
Adapted from “Smitten Kitchen Keepers” by Deb Perelman (Alfred A.
Knopf, 2022).
Ingredients
For the soup
l 10 cups water
l 2 pounds boneless, skinless
chicken thighs, trimmed of
visible fat
l 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
l One (3-inch) piece fresh
ginger, minced or finely grated
l 1 bunch scallions (8 ounces),
sliced, whites and greens
separated
l 2 teaspoons fine salt, plus
more to taste
l Freshly ground black pepper,
to taste (optional)
l 8 ounces curly or other dried
ramen noodles (see NOTES)
l 1 large carrot, cut into
matchsticks (about 1 cup)
For the sauce
l 14 / cup Chinkiang vinegar (see
NOTES)
l 1/ cup low-sodium soy sauce
4 l
l 2 tablespoons toasted sesame
oil
l Chili crisp, to taste (optional)
Steps
l Make the broth: In a 4- to
5-quart pot over high heat,
combine the water, chicken,
garlic, ginger, scallion whites,
salt and pepper, if using, and
bring to a boil. Reduce the heat
to medium-low and simmer,
uncovered, stirring occasional-
ly, until the chicken is tender
and cooked through, about
15 minutes.
l Make the sauce: While the
chicken simmers, in a small
bowl, whisk together the vine-
gar, soy sauce, sesame oil and
chili crisp, to taste, if using.
l Make the soup: Using a slotted
spoon or tongs, transfer the
chicken to a cutting board. Add
the noodles (see NOTES) and
carrots to the broth and cook
following the directions on the
noodle package, about 3 min-
utes.
l While the noodles cook, using
two forks, shred the chicken
into bite-size pieces. Return
the chicken to the pot and
rewarm for 2 minutes. Taste,
l 12 / cup peanut oil, or another
neutral oil
l Fine salt (optional)
l Freshly ground black pepper
(optional)
For the salad
l 8 ounces (1/4 medium head)
green cabbage, finely shredded
(4 cups)
l 2 ounces (1/8 small head) red
cabbage, finely shredded (1
cup)
l 1 head romaine lettuce, roughly
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and season with more salt
and/or pepper, as needed,
keeping in mind that the fin-
ishing sauce will add both
saltiness and heat.
l Divide the soup among bowls.
Add the scallion greens, and
drizzle each bowl with 1 tea-
spoon of the soy sauce mixture,
placing extra sauce and chili
crisp on the table, if desired.
l Notes
l Add the noodles right before
serving or they will keep
“drinking” the broth until there
is little left. If you do not plan
to eat all of the soup at once,
add the carrot as directed and
cook for about 3 minutes.
Then, cook the noodles sepa-
rately, drain them and add
them to the serving bowls
before ladling over the soup;
store the soup and noodles
separately in the refrigerator.
If you do not have ramen
noodles, you can use your
favorite thin noodles, includ-
ing Chinese noodles and angel
hair pasta.
l Chinkiang, or black rice vine-
gar, is ideal for this sauce, but if
you don’t have it, substitute
with rice vinegar, white wine
vinegar or apple cider vinegar.
Nutrition | Per serving (11/2 cups), based on
8: 266 calories, 26 g protein, 26 g
carbohydrates, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 94
mg cholesterol, 912 mg sodium, 2 g dietary
fiber, 2 g sugar
Recipe tested by Ann Maloney and Suzy
Leonard; email questions to
food@washpost.com
torn
l 12 / small red onion (2 ounces
total), thinly sliced
l 1 medium carrot, scrubbed and
coarsely grated
l 1/ cup crispy wonton strips,
2
divided (may substitute crispy
chow mein noodles)
l 1 medium seedless orange,
peeled and cut into bite-size
pieces and divided
l 1/ cup roasted, unsalted
2
cashews, divided
l Sesame seeds, white or black,
for optional garnish
Steps
l Make the dressing: In the bowl
of a food processor or in a
blender, combine the soy sauce,
vinegar, sesame oil, mustard,
honey, sesame paste or tahini,
ginger, and chili oil. Pulse sev-
eral times to combine, then,
with the motor running, slowly
add the peanut oil and process
until the dressing is emulsified.
Taste, and season with salt, pep-
per and/or more chili oil, if
needed. You should get about
1 cup.
l Make the salad: In a large bowl,
toss together the green and red
cabbages, lettuce, onion, carrot
and half of the wonton strips
until well distributed. Add half
of the dressing and toss until
well coated. Add half of the
orange pieces and half of the
cashews and toss lightly to com-
bine.
l Divide the salad among 4 plates
and garnish each portion with
the remaining wonton strips,
oranges and cashews, and the
sesame seeds, if using. Serve
with the remaining dressing on
the side, if desired.
Nutrition | Per serving (2 cups): 369 calories,
8 g protein, 27 g carbohydrates, 29 g fat, 4 g
saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 370 mg
sodium, 6 g dietary fiber, 11 g sugar
Recipe tested by Jim Webster; email
questions to food@washpost.com
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Puerto Rican steak reminds me of a home I barely know

As a kid, when I
opened the
refrigerator and
the smell of white
vinegar, harsh
and exciting, hit
G. Daniela my nostrils, I
Galarza knew we were
EAT having steak for
VORACIOUSLY dinner. The white
ceramic bowl
filled with meat
and marinade didn’t look like
much. It contained a heap of
tenderized steaks, piled
alongside rings of white onions
like unfolded laundry, drenched
in vinegar and salt, waiting to be
sizzled in a pan until saucy and
browned.
On special occasions, or the
odd Friday, my dad would start
the day by tenderizing cube
steaks, pounding them with the
prickly end of a meat mallet
until their surfaces were quilted,
back and front. Only then would
he submerge them in a salty-
vinegary slurry with rounds of
sliced onion. The steaks would
sit in the fridge all day, during
which time the vinegar would
get to work on the open network
of meat proteins, softening them
from the outside in.
When it was almost time for
dinner, after he’d made a pot of
rice and fried some plantains,
my dad would heat a heavy
skillet and add a thick slick of
oil. Then the entire contents of
the bowl would go into the pan,
and, seconds later, the vinegar
would punch us all in the nose
again before softening with the
heat and turning into a salty
sauce. The steaks and onions
would brown quickly and evenly,
caramelizing into a sweet, deep
mahogany brown.
Scent has always triggered my
clearest memories, sharpening
the sepia-toned edges of
nostalgia, pulling me back in
time. But like a lot of people of
Puerto Rican descent, while I
might love the food of the
beautiful island in the
Caribbean and have childhood
memories of eating it with REY LOPEZ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

family, I didn’t know much

about its history or origins until
recently.
It’s mostly heartening to know
that I’m not alone. “Puerto
Ricans are quick to argue about
the roots and regulations of
what Puerto Rican food is,”
Illyanna Maisonet writes in
“Diasporican: A Puerto Rican
Cookbook,” but the fact is that
many of us don’t know much
about our cuisine. “That tends to
happen when you believe it’s
your birthright; you take it for
granted. Sometimes it feels like,
somewhere along the line,
Puerto Ricans lost their way.
And with it, their food,” she
writes, before asserting that
colonialism is to blame.
Despite its fertile land and
tropical climate, 80 percent of
the food consumed in Puerto
Rico is imported, and therefore
often expensive and out of reach
for many, leaving their pantries
“in a perpetual state of survival
mode,” Maisonet writes. It’s a
Bistec Encebollado marinating time, it’s good to
tenderize them again. To ten-
The amount of uncooked rice
you’ll need to yield about 4 cups
and bring to a boil. Reduce the
heat to low, cover and simmer
4 servings derize cube steaks, place them of cooked rice will vary depend- until the rice is tender and the
Variations of this Puerto Rican steak recipe are made throughout the on a cutting board, uncovered, ing on the variety of rice you water is absorbed, 10 to 15 min-
diaspora. Serve with rice, which will soak up the salty onion sauce. and using the “tooth” side of a choose. For long-grain white utes.
Active time: 10 mins; Total time: 30 mins, plus marinating time meat mallet, pound the steaks rice, rinse 11/2 cups of rice until Nutrition | Per serving (1 steak, 1/4 cup sauce
Adapted from “Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook” by Illyanna five times per piece. the water runs clear. Then, and onions, 1 cup rice): 743 calories, 35 g
Maisonet (Ten Speed, 2022). l If you plan to serve the dish with place it in a medium saucepan protein, 55 g carbohydrates, 41 g fat, 9 g
saturated fat, 99 mg cholesterol, 162 mg
rice, put the pot of rice on the over medium-high heat. Add sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 4 g sugar
Ingredients l In a 12-inch cast-iron skillet stove before you begin making 1/ teaspoon of olive oil and stir
2 Recipe tested by G. Daniela Galarza; email
l 4 cube steaks (about 11/4 pounds over medium heat, heat the oil the steak, and both should be to coat the rice. Add 3 cups of questions to food@washpost.com
total), tenderized (see NOTES) until it shimmers. Add two of ready at about the same time. water, a pinch of salt, if desired,
l Fine salt the steaks and saute for 5 to
l Freshly ground black pepper 7 minutes, or until cooked to
l 2 cloves garlic your liking. (The steaks may not
l 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar retain much or any pink in their FOOD
l 3 tablespoons olive oil centers because of the mari-
l 1 tablespoon soy sauce nade.) Repeat with the remain- Food and dining editor: Joe Yonan • Voraciously editor: Matt Brooks • Recipes editor: Ann Maloney • Art
(optional) ing steaks, adding more oil as directosr: Cece Pascual, Marissa Vonesh • Photo editor: Jennifer Beeson Gregory • Assistant recipes editor:
l 1 tablespoon granulated garlic needed. Transfer the steaks to a
Olga Massov • Food critic: Tom Sietsema • Staff writers: Tim Carman, G. Daniela Galarza, Aaron Hutcherson, Emily
l 1/4 cup canola or another plate and cover to keep warm.
Heil, Becky Krystal • Copy editors: Jim Webster, Jennifer Morehead • Editorial aide: Anna Luisa Rodriguez |
neutral oil, plus more as l Add half of the onions and an-
needed other 1 tablespoon of canola oil, Contact us: food@washpost.com, 202-334-7575. The Washington Post, Food, 1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071
l 2 medium yellow onions (12 if necessary, to the pan drip-
ounces total), thinly sliced into pings and cook, stirring
rings occasionally, until translucent,
l 2 cups water 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the re-

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symptom of Puerto Rico’s status
as a colony of the United States
and a reason that many more
Puerto Ricans, who are of
indigenous Taino, Spanish and
African descent, live in the
mainland United States than on
the island.
Anyone with a link to the
island, or curious about its
history and culture, needs to
read “Diasporican.” It’s filled
with history and helpful
explanations of the island’s
sometimes idiosyncratic food.
It’s also a deeply personal book,
with beautiful reflections from
Maisonet’s experience growing
up within the Puerto Rican
diaspora.
Flipping through it for the
first time, I was moved to tears
when I came upon her Bistec
Encebollado recipe. I hadn’t
tasted the dish in decades. It’s
not my father’s recipe —
Maisonet doesn’t marinate the
meat with the onions; they’re
added later — but I knew I had
to make it immediately. Its scent
and flavors evoked my
childhood. They also reminded
me that Puerto Rico will always
be a place I might never really
know, and my Puerto Rican-ness
may continue to feel like a cloak
that doesn’t quite fit. Then I
read Maisonet’s introduction, in
which she explains that
“Diasporican” is not a Puerto
Rican cookbook — it’s for cooks
like me, those of us who grew up
in the diaspora. As she writes,
it’s for “the tribe of Ni De Aquí,
Ni De Allá (‘not from here, not
from there’).” That liminal place
may sometimes be
uncomfortable, but it’s never not
delicious.
This is from our Eat Voraciously
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l Cooked white rice, for serving
(see NOTES)
Steps
l Season the steaks with salt and
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tar and pestle, mash the garlic
cloves. Transfer to a bowl or
container large enough to hold
the steaks snugly and stir in the
vinegar, olive oil, soy sauce, if
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Fear no fish: Just use these simple techniques to avoid overcooking it

FISH FROM E1
firm but still moist between 130
and 140 degrees; a few denser vari-
eties, such as tuna and salmon, are
particularly juicy at 120 degrees.
If you’re looking to increase
your confidence when cooking
fish and avoid the dreaded over-
cooking, here are some simple,
beginner-friendly techniques to
help you. (Recipes mentioned in
this story with capitalized names
can be found in our Recipe Finder
at washingtonpost.com/recipes.)
Packet cooking
Whether you call it packet cook-
ing or en papillote, the method of
wrapping fish in parchment with a
splash of liquid, some aromatics
and vegetables makes for a no-fuss
but elegant meal. At its core, you
are steaming.
“The moist heat prevents the
fish from drying out, and the
steamed aromatics penetrate the
fish with flavor,” my colleague Ann
Maloney said in the Fish en Papil-
lote recipe she shared. “Once the
fillets are placed in the folded
parchment, they bake undis-
turbed, so there is no need to worry
about breaking up fillets while
flipping them in a pan. Finally, I
find this method doesn’t fill my
house with a fishy scent the way
some other methods of cooking
fish can.”
This technique works well with
a variety of fish, though, as Ann
says, ideally with pieces that are no
more than one inch thick.
You don’t even necessarily have
to turn on the oven. Salmon in
Packets With Green Herb Mari-
nade (above right) walks you
through how to accomplish it in a
microwave.
Even if you don’t go the packet
route, consider other ways of
steaming, including in a bamboo
steamer or in a bowl in a steamer
basket set in a wok or saucepan.
Slow-roasting
If overcooking is one of the en-
emies of fish, then drop your oven
temperature. Slow-roasting “is my
favorite way to cook salmon, most-
ly because the gentle heat makes it
almost impossible to overcook the
fish,” Samin Nosrat says in “Salt
Fat Acid Heat.” Moreover, the tech-
nique allows fat to render during
cooking and keeps the fish moist.
This makes slow-roasting ideal for
salmon, which is higher in fat, but
Nosrat recommends trying it with
steelhead trout and Alaskan hali-
but.
In Adam Roberts’s Slow-Roast-
ed Salmon and Herby Rice Pilaf,
fillets cook at 250 degrees for 35 to
40 minutes until they reach an
internal temperature of 125 de-
grees. In her recipe, Nosrat goes
lower, cooking a two-pound fillet
at 225 degrees for 40 to 50 min-
utes. “Because this method is so
gentle on its proteins, the fish will
appear translucent even when it’s
cooked,” she says.
Poaching
Poaching is a gentle cooking
method well-suited to delicate
foods such as fish, according to
SALMON IN PACKETS WITH GREEN HERB MARINADE: SCOTT SUCHMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
“Fish poached in water,
wine, olive oil or any
combination of the three
will emerge with an
exceptionally tender
texture and clean
flavor.”
Samin Nosrat,
in “Salt Fat Acid Heat”
POACHED SALMON AND NAPA SLAW WITH CITRUS-MISO DRESSING
TOM MCCORKLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; FOOD STYLING BY GINA NISTICO FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Nosrat. “Fish poached in water,
wine, olive oil or any combination
of the three will emerge with an
exceptionally tender texture and
clean flavor,” she says.
Poached fish will stay moist
while refrigerated for a day or two.
It’s nice to eat cool, as well.
A few tips from McGee: Start
moderate-size fillets and steaks in
water that’s just below a boil so
that bacteria on the surface are
killed instantly. He recommends
then taking the pot off the heat and
adding cool liquid to bring the
temperature down to 150 to 160
degrees and letting the fish cook
gently. Letting the fish cool in the
liquid promotes a moister texture
since you won’t encounter the
same kind of surface evaporation
that happens when a hot piece of
fish is exposed to air.
You can also leave the fish over
reduced heat, covered, while it
cooks, as in Poached Salmon and
Napa Slaw With Citrus-Miso
Dressing (below left).
Confit
Think poaching, but with fat.
The advantage with poaching in
something like oil or butter, Mc-
Gee says, is that the heat is con-
ducted more slowly and gently be-
cause those ingredients don’t
evaporate and cool the same way
as options such as water, wine or
broth. Moreover, the temperature
is even more stable.
Whole roasted
Roasting a whole fish “is beauti-
fully forgiving: Even if you leave it
to roast a little longer than it
should, maybe to crisp up the skin,
the fish stays moist,” says Domeni-
ca Marchetti. After experimenting
with her first whole-roasted fish,
Marchetti found that “the meat
was firm and sweet and much tast-
ier than the precut steaks and fil-
lets I’d become used to cooking.
This makes sense: Fish bones im-
part flavor, while the skin keeps
the flesh beneath moist as it
roasts.”
A whole fish also makes for an
impressive presentation, and you
can experiment with ways to sea-
son and stuff it. In Whole Roasted
Fish With Pomegranate Molas-
ses, G. Daniela Galarza seasons the
outside simply with salt and pep-
per, stuffs the fish with orange
slices and scallions, and roasts it
on a bed of zucchini and carrot.

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For these cooks, embracing chaos is a path to inner peace
CHAOS COOKING FROM E1
life into your meals, with the same
goal of any passionate cook: mak-
ing delicious food.
While I now readily embrace
the idea of chaos in cooking, as
someone living with chronic anxi-
ety, I used to be so fearful of creat-
ing something inedible — and
then having to literally eat my
failure — that the thought of so
much as swapping in light brown
sugar for dark would push me to
nearly break down before I’d even
begun making my cookie dough.
With time, practice and plenty
of therapy, I eventually started to
ease up on myself. Life, I’ve
learned, is chaotic: Occasional
failure is inevitable. Why stress
yourself out by fighting it?
I’ve spoken with three cooks
and writers — Allison Robicelli,
Kate Ray and Ethaney Lee — each
of whom regularly incorporate
chaos into their cooking. Here,
they’ve provided us with a few
pieces of wisdom that can help the
timid or overly regimented home
cook take those first baby steps
into the unknown — or at least
into the shadowy depths of their
own pantries.
Ease into it
To Ray, chaos is “something be-
yond boundaries.” She points to
Lil’ Deb’s Oasis, a restaurant in
Hudson, N.Y., that serves what the
owners describe as “tropical com-
fort food,” as a prime example of
chaotic cooking. The owners, who
come from Ecuadoran and Ameri-
can Southern backgrounds,
“talked about putting together
their menu with a lot of lime and
butter,” Ray said. “These are
things that don’t [traditionally] go
together, but [the owners] would
find their taste together by step-
ping across these culinary bound-
aries.”
You don’t have to open a restau-
rant to start cooking chaotically,
however. To the chaos-shy home
cook, Ray suggests starting with a
dish you know intimately. That
way, the stakes for experimenting
are lower. Oatmeal or congee are
two great options, as both have “a
limitless number of combinations
and directions.” Ray herself re-
cently combined black sesame,
ground ginger and dried cherries
for a particularly warming bowl of
oatmeal, she said.
Ray also offers an online work-
shop called “No Recipe,” which
she described over email as
“structured less like a traditional
class and more like an improv
workshop.” In it, cooks start with a
template — such as vegetable frit-
ters — and learn to gradually ad-
just for their own tastes, experi-
menting to see what works and
what doesn’t. The workshop was a
reaction to traditional culinary
classes, which Ray describes as
more about “memorizing steps”
than developing your own tastes.
Save experiments for
downtime
Chaotic cooking is something
that takes a bit of practice to get
comfortable with, but there’s cer-
tainly a time and a place for trying
it out.
“I’m not doing any[thing] fun
during the week,” said Robicelli, a
food writer and Washington Post
contributor. “That’s weekend
stuff!”
Forcing yourself to experiment
How to make and use
cauliflower rice
BY A ARON H UTCHERSON
If you’re looking to incorpo-
rate more vegetables in your diet,
then riced cauliflower might be
the solution you’ve been looking
for. Also called cauliflower rice
or cauliflower couscous, it’s cau-
liflower that has been broken
down into small pieces resem-
bling grain or pasta and often
used as a substitute.
Some believe that cauliflower
rice was invented in 1998 by chef
Ben Ford, who called it cauliflow-
er couscous, but others say it
dates back further, to the raw
food movement. Regardless, its
popularity is linked to the rise of
the paleo diet, which prohibits
the consumption of grains, le-
gumes and dairy products. The
ingredient has grown beyond
that particular diet to be touted
as a replacement for rice and
other grains for anyone looking
to reduce their intake of carbohy-
drates and calories, and internet
searches for “riced cauliflower”
spike every January, according to
Google Trends.
Though “cauliflower rice” is
the most popular term colloqui-
ally, “riced cauliflower” is the
phrasing you’re more likely to
encounter in grocery stores. (The
rice industry prefers the latter
term as it reduces the possibility
of confusing the cut vegetable
with actual rice.) You can find
when you’re just not in the mood
is a surefire way to suck the joy out
of cooking — which, Robicelli em-
phasized, is not what cooking
should be about. “We eat a lot of
eggs,” she said of her family’s
weekday suppers.
The same goes for being free-
wheeling when entertaining. “I
would say, don’t attempt your ex-
periments when you’re hosting a
dinner party,” Ray said. “If you’re
trying to impress other people,
then you’ll be too worried about
getting it right.”
Pay attention to your emotions:
If you’re feeling weird, off-balance
or irritable, it’s okay — maybe
even therapeutic — to let that
come through in your food, some-
thing Lee often finds herself do-
ing. Lee struggles with premen-
strual dysphoric disorder, which
is often accompanied by moodi-
ness and irritability.
“Often, during certain times of
the month, I feel very off-kilter,”
she said. “I find that that’s when I
gravitate toward food that maybe
is not the most natural-looking in
terms of color,” hence the use of
blue dye in the aforementioned
pavlova.
Giving in to that urge feels ca-
thartic, she said.
Aside from making strange or
unnatural-looking food, another
way to cook chaotically is by al-
lowing yourself to be selfish once
in a while. Lee, who also has a
history of disordered eating, often
finds it difficult to give in to her
cravings without feeling some
kind of guilt. One way she’s able to
push past those feelings, she said,
is by occasionally eating a meal
that feels almost excessively in-
dulgent — like a half-pound of
pasta in a “luxurious” sauce, or
thick-cut toast “slathered” with
packages of riced cauliflower in
the refrigerated and freezer sec-
tions, but since cut, raw cauli-
flower can start to smell sulfu-
rous over time, I’d recommend
buying the frozen stuff. Or, you
could make your own at home.
Making riced cauliflower is
simple. All you need is a box
grater, a food processor or even
just a knife. With any method,
start by removing the leaves and
reserving them for another use.
If the core is tender, you can turn
it into riced cauliflower along
with the florets; otherwise, re-
serve it for another use as it
won’t cook up the same.
Box Grater: Cut the head into
wedges through the core. Then,
as best you can, grate each piece
on the large-holed side of a box
grater. It may get a little messy,
so grate it on a rimmed baking
sheet or in a large bowl to help
contain the chaos.
Food processor: Cut the cauli-
flower into florets and grate
them using a food processor’s
grater-disk attachment. Alterna-
tively, you can pulse the vegeta-
ble in batches with the blade
attachment until it’s the size of
small granules resembling rice.
(If any large pieces remain, re-
move them, empty the riced
cauliflower and pulse the larger
pieces in the next batch.)
Knife: It requires a lot of
work, but you can finely chop the
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chocolate almond butter and pea-
nut butter with flaky salt.
“For me, that is chaotic,” she
said. “Because I’m rebelling
against what my own brain is
telling me that I should be doing
or what I should be eating.”
Accept chaos as a natural part
of cooking — and life
Chaos is part and parcel of Ro-
bicelli’s approach to food writing,
which often includes mess-for-
ward, deeply creative recipes like
Nutellasagna and Cherry-Bour-
bon Glazed Ribs.
“The word chaotic is painfully
overused but I have no other ad-
jective for @robicellis’s approach
to recipe development and I want
to eat everything she writes
about,” tweeted food writer Max
Falkowitz in 2021.
Robicelli agreed with Falkow-
itz’s description. “I am the physi-
cal manifestation of chaos, so I
don’t really get an option,” she
said.
An important element of stay-
ing calm in the kitchen, she said, is
accepting the chaos that already
exists in cooking — and in our
lives. Robicelli has two teenage
sons and, on top of that, is respon-
sible for feeding a household of
seven. “There’s not one pan that’s
enough for that. So you end up
cooking a lot of foods simulta-
neously,” she said. “And just by
nature, that’s so frickin’ chaotic.”
Acknowledging that inherent
chaos will help you get used to it.
“If you just expect it, it doesn’t feel
like chaos anymore. It feels very
normal.”
Want to dip your toe into a little
chaos? Try Ray’s recipe template
for vegetable fritters. It’s one she
uses in her “No Recipe” work-
shops.
FOOD STYLING BY LISA CHERKASKY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
THE WASHINGTON POST
No-Recipe Fritters
Chaotic cooking is about concentrating on what is happening to your
food as it cooks and observing what it’s telling you, and fritters are one of
the best ways to practice that.
This intuitive recipe template can be used for a variety of fritters, such
as latkes and okonomiyaki. Start with chopped or sliced vegetables, add a
starch for binding, an optional egg (which also helps with binding), and a
little baking powder, which provides lightness and helps with browning.
Fritters are versatile and forgiving. And there’s a lot of room for
correction along the way — if your first fritter falls apart, add more flour
or egg to the batter and get it right on the second or third try.
The hardest part is flipping them at just the right time. This is where
it’ll help to use your nose, to smell if anything is burning, and your eyes,
to see steam or observe whether the center looks cooked, and perhaps a
little dexterity, if you want to pull up an edge and peek. You’ll have the
best results if you follow these two rules:
1. Keep an eye on the heat, adjusting as you go.
2. Wait until the first side is cooked before flipping them over.
To make your fritters, use some combination of the ingredients below.
Ingredients l Baking powder (start with
1/teaspoon)
2 to eat them hot.
For the vegetables l
l
Eggs (start with 1)
Flaxseed (grind some flaxseed
l You’ll need about 1 pound of and let it sit with a little water)
vegetables to get 8 to 12 fritters, l Flour (all-purpose, whole-
which should serve 3 to 4 people. wheat or some other)
l Shredded wet vegetables such l Starch (potato, tapioca or corn)
as zucchini or potato, tossed l Grated Japanese sweet potato,
with salt and then squeezed dry such as nagaimo or yamaimo
l Shredded carrots, sweet potato l Grated taro
or parsnips l Cooked rice or another grain
l Chopped Brussels sprouts, l Crumbled or grated cheese
broccoli, cauliflower or green l Cooked beans, smashed a little
beans
l Blanched sturdy greens such as
spinach or kale, squeezed dry
For the liquids
and chopped l Water
l Stock
For the binders l
l
Dashi
Dried mushroom soaking water
l You’ll want the mixture to be
thicker than cake batter but less
clumpy than cookie dough. You
For the flavorings
should be able to drop it from l Minced aromatics, such as gar-
your spoon onto the pan and lic, ginger, onions, shallots or
have it spread a little on its own scallions
(though you can help flatten it l Spices such as black pepper,
out with a spatula). coriander, cumin or cayenne
cauliflower with a large knife
until you achieve the desired
size.
Once cut, the vegetable is best
used right away or frozen, where
it can be stored for months. In
terms of how to use cauliflower
rice, you can eat it raw in a salad,
saute it in a skillet in a matter of
minutes to serve as a side, fill
burritos or stuffed peppers, or
use it in a stir fry or in fried “rice.”
The flavor is that of, well, cauli-
flower. So if you’re not a fan of
the vegetable, then you’re prob-
ably not going to like it cut into
teeny tiny pieces, either.
What’s the catch? For one, it
doesn’t absorb liquid like rice
does, so riced cauliflower served
alongside stews and curries will
PHOTOS BY REY LOPEZ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
be more watery. Also, it doesn’t
have any starch, meaning you
. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 , 2023
l Minced fresh herbs such as
cilantro, parsley, chives or rose-
mary
l A teaspoon or more of soy
sauce, Worcestershire sauce or
hot sauce
l Salt (if you salted your vegeta-
bles to drain them of water, be
careful not to add too much)
For the sauces
l Yogurt or tahini mixed with
salt, garlic, a little lemon, olive
oil, and chopped fresh herbs,
maybe water to loosen it
l Japanese mayo or okonomiyaki
sauce/hoisin/plum sauce
l Sour cream with fresh dill and a
lot of minced garlic
l Bean spread or hummus
l Soy sauce with black vinegar,
ginger, garlic and toasted sesa-
me seeds
l Basic marinara, made from
blending canned tomatoes, gar-
lic, salt and olive oil
Prep the veggies
l Start by preparing the vegeta-
bles. Chop them small or shred
them with a box grater or food
processor. If they’re wet, you’ll
want to toss them with salt, let
them sit for 10 minutes, and
then either wring them out in a
clean dish towel or press them
in a colander. If you’re using
greens, such as spinach or kale,
cook them for about 30 seconds
in boiling salted water, then
squeeze them dry in a towel and
chop them up.
Add flavorings and binders
l Mix the vegetables with your
chosen flavorings and a binder
— an egg, a couple of table-
spoons of flour and a little bak-
ing powder is a reliable combi-
nation. If you omit eggs, defi-
nitely use some baking powder.
Spoon in your liquids
l Add your chosen liquid a spoon-
ful at a time until you are able to
drop the fritter batter from your
spoon onto the pan. It should be
less sticky than cookie dough
but thicker than cake batter. If
you’re using flour, you may
want to let the batter rest for 10
minutes after adding the liquid
to let it hydrate.
Choose a sauce
l Make your dipping sauce before
you cook the fritters, if you want
Fry your fritters
l Heat a cast-iron or nonstick
skillet with oil (olive, coconut or
neutral). Drop spoonfuls of the
batter onto the pan, and use the
back of a spoon to spread them
to pancake shape. Watch them
carefully and adjust the heat as
needed. When they start to
crisp on one side, flip them over
to cook the other side.
l Troubleshooting: If your frit-
ters aren’t spreading, add more
water to the batter, 1 tablespoon
at a time. If they’re falling apart
when you try to flip them, add
more flour and/or an egg to the
batter.
l Transfer the fritters to a paper-
towel-lined plate. Eat hot or at
room temperature, or cold from
the fridge the next day. Serve
with a fried egg, if you want.
shouldn’t use it in dishes that
rely on some rice varieties’ thick-
ening power, such as risotto, rice
pudding or sushi. Lastly, cauli-
flower rice’s lack of carbohy-
drates means you won’t feel full
for very long compared with
actual rice, which could be a pro
or a con depending on your
eating schedule and metabolism.
Yes, riced cauliflower is a
semi-passable substitute for rice.
Better yet, think of it as its own
thing rather than expecting the
vegetable to behave like a grain.
If you can appreciate cauliflower
rice for what it is, then it’s a
worthy addition to your culinary
repertoire.
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Gas stoves vs. electric: What you need to know

With policymakers eyeing limits on gas,
it may soon be time to weigh other options
BY B ECKY K RYSTAL
The type of stove you have in
your home is determined by mul-
tiple factors. Chief among them is
what type of hookup — gas or
electric — you have and whether
you can change that.
Renters and others in multi-
unit condos or townhouses have
little choice. If you do have the
luxury of choice, you may consid-
er your cooking habits, your
budget and your household.
Now, another factor may soon
force many people’s hands when
it comes to stoves: government
bans.
As my colleague Shannon Osa-
ka recently reported, Richard
Trumka Jr., one of the commis-
sioners of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC), said
in an interview that the U.S.
agency was considering a ban on
gas stoves — or at least standards
around the amount of toxic
fumes such stoves can release
into American homes. Several
cities have already enacted bans
on gas stoves in certain new
residences.
The CPSC chair, Alexander
Hoehn-Saric, later walked back
Trumka’s comments in a state-
ment, saying, “I am not looking to
ban gas stoves and the CPSC has
no proceeding to do so.” But
Hoehn-Saric did reiterate that
the agency would look at ways to
reduce emissions created by gas
stoves.
It’s clear this is just the begin-
ning of the fight, as lobbyists,
legislators and advocates will
probably be duking it out for
some time on whether gas stoves
will go the way of the dodo. But
the contention is more than theo-
retical. Whatever happens will
have a practical impact on the
lives of home cooks. So what do
you need to know about the
differences between gas, tradi-
tional electric and induction
cooktops? Let’s compare.
How they work
Gas: Gas stoves rely on a com-
bustible mixture of oxygen and
gas that flows more or less de-
pending on how you turn the
control knob. The cookware is
heated by the open flame.
Traditional electric: Also
known as radiant cooktops, these
appliances rely on the slow proc-
ess of conducting heat from a coil
to the cookware. Those coils may
be exposed, as you’ll find in older
models, or under a smooth ce-
ramic glass surface.
Induction: Induction cook-
tops employ copper coils under
the ceramic to create a magnetic
field that sends pulses into the
cookware. This causes the elec-
trons in the pot or pan to move
faster, resulting in heat.
Safety and climate impact
Gas: This is the crux of the
bans being enacted and consid-
ered. “When a gas stove is on, it
releases not only fine pieces of
particulate matter that can in-
vade the lungs, but also nitrogen
dioxide, carbon monoxide and
formaldehyde — all of which
have been linked to various
health risks,” Osaka writes. In
terms of climate impact, more
gas hookups make it that much
harder to move away from fossil
fuels. And research shows that
gas stoves emit the greenhouse
gas methane. As far as other
safety issues, the open flames
and accessible knobs of gas
stoves can be of special concern
for households with small chil-
dren and pets.
Traditional electric: Tradi-
tional electric models don’t emit
indoor pollutants. Because of the
heat coming off the coils, though,
anything in contact with the
burners can start to get hot or
even catch fire. Most electric
homes still rely on fossil fuels but
leave open the possibility for a
shift to renewable energy
sources.
Induction: Like traditional
electric, induction cooktops re-
lease no indoor pollutants, and in
the future, they may be fueled by
renewable energy. These cook-
tops don’t get very hot, as they
heat only compatible cookware,
although some residual warmth
from the cookware can be trans-
As the potential health and ferred back into the ceramic sur-
climate hazards of gas stoves face.
gain attention, consumers may
be looking more toward electric Responsiveness and heat
options. maintenance
Gas: Gas stoves are very re-
sponsive, easily moving between
temperatures. You can see it as
the flame shrinks or grows as you
turn the knob. Gas does pretty
well maintaining a simmer, Con-
Lobbyists, legislators sumer Reports notes, but is not as
steady in general as electric.
and advocates will Traditional electric: Tradi-
tional electric models typically
probably be duking it take longer to heat up or cool
down. Because of the potential
out for some time on for residual heat, you sometimes
run the risk of burning foods
whether gas stoves will when switching from high to low
heat, which is why some experts
go the way of the dodo. recommend switching burners if
you need to drop the temperature
Whatever happens will quickly. Once you get to that
lower temp, though, Consumer
have a practical impact Reports says electric ranges in
general excel at maintaining a
on the lives of home simmer.
Induction: Similar to gas, in-
cooks. duction cooktops are very re-
sponsive to changes in the heat
setting. Consumer Reports finds
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that water boils 20 to 40 percent
faster than it does on the best gas
or electric burners. Induction
maintains a simmer well; how-
ever, you may find yourself need-
ing to use a slightly higher temp
than you’re used to, as induction
is so responsive that a low setting
can be cooler than you expect.
Cleaning
Gas: Gas stoves can be a bear
to clean, thanks to the grates and
cavities underneath.
Traditional electric: Radiant
models with exposed burners
pose some of the same challenges
as gas cooktops in terms of clean-
ing. Ceramic cooktops are much
simpler to wipe down, though the
residual heat means you may get
more food burned onto the sur-
face after spills.
Induction: Induction cooktops
are just as easy to clean as other
ceramic-topped models. You’re
less likely to have to deal with
food encrusted on the surface
since they don’t get nearly as hot.
Price
Gas: This applies to all types of
stoves: You can find models
across a wide range of price
points, and the most expensive
options are not always the best.
Price depends on where you live
and your retailer, so it pays to
shop around. If you’re looking for
a point of reference, Consumer
Reports recently released its list
of top-performing ranges of all
types for this year. The No. 1 gas
model from LG goes for $1,698 to
$2,447.
Traditional electric: These are
more often among the
lowest-priced stoves, though not
across the board. The favorite
from Consumer Reports is made
by LG and runs from $698 to
$1,299.
Induction: While a high-end
induction model may be two or
more times the price of a compa-
rable gas or traditional electric
option, at the entry level you can
find induction cooktops for less
than $1,000, putting them more
in line with other ranges. A
Frigidaire that goes for $1,093 to
$1,549 was the third-place induc-
tion range from Consumer Re-
ports, while the top-ranking
model from LG comes in at
$2,298 to $3,500.
Especially if you are switching
from gas to induction (or tradi-
tional electric), you have to con-
sider the price of changing your
lines and other hardware, al-
though there are some govern-
ment incentives that can help
cover the cost of the appliance
and the conversion. If you don’t
have cookware that is induction
compatible, that would be an
additional cost, though many
common pans, including cast-
iron, some stainless steel and
some nonstick, already are. (You
can confirm by seeing whether a
magnet sticks to the bottom of
the pan.) Aluminum, pure copper,
glass and ceramic are not.
While induction is more
energy-efficient than older gas or
electric stoves because the direct
transfer of energy means no heat
is lost to the air, keep your energy
bill expectations in check, Paul
Hope, the home and appliance
editor at Consumer Reports, told
me. You may see modest savings
but nothing dramatic, especially
as cooking appliances account for
only about 2 percent of your
household energy usage.

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After my mother’s death, seafood soup marked a return to ordinary life
GRIEF SOUP FROM E1
form of an obscure poem.
I knew, even when I was young,
that my mother had some kind of
special quality that I didn’t quite
understand and definitely didn’t
share. It would have been intimi-
dating if she had ever wielded it
as a cudgel, but she never did.
She had deliberately shaped
the kind of person she wanted to
be, and she made it clear to me
and my brothers that anyone
could. “Life is theater,” she used to
say. What you think and feel don’t
matter much. You become the
sum of what you say and do, and
you have control over those. You
get to decide. It wasn’t an idea I
fully grasped as a kid, but it took
hold with a vengeance when I
was an adult.
Sometimes, though, what you
feel bleeds through. Like when
someone you love dies.
My mom had been ill for a long
time, and at the end of October I
got a call from her caregiver that
her condition had deteriorated
suddenly and markedly. My
brother Aaron was on a plane to
Miami Beach two days later, and
my husband, Kevin, and I were a
couple days behind him. Aaron
found her very debilitated but
with cognitive faculties intact.
They talked about poetry. Kevin
and I were too late.
Most of us, sooner or later,
experience the death of a parent;
it’s an ordinary event. And many
of us know the kind of mixed-up
grief, edged with relief, that
comes when the misery of some-
one very ill finally ends.
But grief defies its own ordi-
nariness, and it sets about taking
over your life. It becomes your
cognitive wallpaper, there when
you’re not actively thinking about
something else. It catches you
off-guard at weird and inconven-
ient moments — in the elevator,
at the bank. I got scatterbrained
and stupid; I fumbled little things
like my schedule and my shop-
ping list. I kept thinking of things
I wanted to ask her. And in a sign
that things had really gone hay-
wire, I stopped thinking about
food.
Okay, I didn’t completely stop
thinking about food. I stopped
thinking about it as much as I
usually do, which is basically all
the time. I was still cooking, but it
was things Kevin and I could
make on auto-dinner. A pantry
pasta sauce, a roast chicken, chili.
All my adult life, I’ve cooked
These satisfying seared beans showcase the breadth of Mexican food
If your idea of
Mexican food is
cheese-smothered
plates, this recipe,
adapted from
television host and
Ellie cookbook author
Krieger Pati Jinich’s
NOURISH “Treasures of the
Mexican Table,”
will be an eye-
opener. In it, white beans are
seared until lightly browned, then
tossed with toasted, ground
pumpkin seeds, fresh cilantro,
chives and scallions, and served
with a bright squeeze of lime and a
sprinkle of chopped fresh chile.
It’s Jinich’s take on tok seel, a
dish from the state of Quintana
Roo, where sizzling hot stones are
traditionally applied to get the
seared effect on the beans
(according to Jinich, “tok” means
“burned” in the Mayan language).
To approximate the deep taste of
the original dish, Jinich uses a mix
of olive, peanut and toasted
sesame oils. It’s a satisfying recipe
that’s full of Mexican flavor
without a shred of cheese in sight.
And it’s just one example of how
healthful Mexican food can be.
Mexican cooking, Jinich explained
via email, “has deep ancient roots
that precede the arrival of the
Spanish and the cuisine of the Old
World. So there are a lot of dishes
that focus on different beans and
seeds, such as Tok Seel. There is so
much more to explore from the
rich and diverse universe of
Mexican cuisine, filled with its
regional and micro regional
cuisines.”
This plant-protein-packed,
vegan recipe is a great place to
start. Besides being healthful, it’s
practical and affordable, too.
Using precooked or canned beans,
it can be on the table in under half
an hour. Jinich suggests serving it
as a side dish, or as a light main
with corn tostadas or crusty bread.
I added a simple green salad with
sliced avocado to round out my
meal and was completely fulfilled.
Krieger is a registered dietitian
nutritionist and cookbook author.
Learn more at elliekrieger.com.
RECIPE FINDER
most every day. My mother did,
too. She didn’t make a fuss about
it, she didn’t even talk about it,
she just put good-tasting food on
the table every night. She didn’t
teach me how to do it, and she
didn’t invite me — or anyone else
— to participate. She cooked solo.
I internalized the ideas that cook-
ing was an ordinary daily activity
and that it was something you
did alone. It took Kevin many
years of patient, gradual en-
croachment to show me that
people could cook collaborative-
ly, and like it.
I was grateful for the collabo-
ration in the wake of my mom’s
death, when meals were an after-
thought and Kevin and I shared
what little work went into what
we ate. And one of the first signs
that grief was waning was when I
found myself, one day just after
breakfast, thinking about dinner.
“I want to find a fish market,” I
told Kevin. “I want a Florida fish,
and I want to cook something
new with it.” We found a market
in a Cuban neighborhood in Mi-
ami, but my pathetic Spanishless-
ness wasn’t a problem; I just
pointed to one of the shiny,
clear-eyed yellowtail snappers
nestled in ice. Oh, and some of
those shrimp over there, too,
please.
I made stock with the fish rack,
and turned it all into a soup with
coconut milk, green curry paste
and soba noodles. That’s not
original or even imaginative. It’s
a flavor combination as old as the
hills — as long as the hills are
somewhere in Southeast Asia.
But it marked a return to the
daily routine. The ordinary daily
routine.
When the tide goes out, what’s
revealed is exactly what was
there before. A little roughed-up,
a little damp, but the selfsame
sand. When grief ebbs, life’s small
daily joys resurface. And I — a
little roughed-up, a little damp —
take new pleasure in them.
It’s a good soup, honest. But
the night we ate it, seasoned with
re-entry, I was overwhelmed with
gratitude. Not for the soup —
although it really is a good soup
— but for a life where good soup
is an ordinary daily joy.
My mom would have loved
that soup. But she also would
have wondered why I’m making
such a bloody fuss about it.
Haspel writes about food and
science and farms oysters on Cape
Cod. On Twitter: @TamarHaspel.
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Coconut Seafood Soup With Soba as cod or hake, cut into 1-inch
cubes
6 servings (makes about 10 cups without the noodles, see NOTE) l 8 ounces peeled and deveined
This fish soup made with coconut milk and soba noodles is as much a shrimp, cut into bite-size
template as it is a recipe. Use whatever stock you have on hand and any pieces if big
firm, white fish you happen to like, such as cod or hake. Rice noodles l Chopped fresh cilantro, for
work as well as soba, and you can enhance your soup with handfuls of garnish
baby spinach or a poached egg at the end.
Total time: 40 mins Steps
MAKE AHEAD: The soba noodles can be cooked and refrigerated up l Set a medium pot with water
to 3 days in advance. over high heat and bring to a
Refrigerate for up to 3 days; gently reheat over medium-low heat. boil. Add the soba noodles and
The soup will separate as it sits; this is fine — just stir it to recombine. cook according to package
Thai green curry paste and soba noodles can be found at well- instructions, until al dente.
stocked supermarkets, Asian markets and online. Remove from the heat, drain
From Unearthed columnist Tamar Haspel. and rinse under cold running
water until no longer hot. Drain
Ingredients l 6 cups fish or seafood stock and set aside.
l 8 ounces soba noodles (see (may substitute chicken stock l Meanwhile, in a large pot over
NOTE) or vegetable broth) medium heat, heat the oil until
l 1 tablespoon neutral oil, such l One (13.5-ounce) can full-fat it shimmers. Add the shiitakes
as vegetable or grapeseed, plus coconut milk and cook, stirring and drizzling
more as needed l 1 tablespoon Thai green curry with a little more oil if needed,
l 4 ounces fresh shiitake paste until they begin to soften, about
mushrooms, sliced l Fine salt 4 minutes. Add the onion and
l 1 medium yellow onion (8 l Juice of 1/2 lime, plus more to cook, stirring, until translucent,
ounces), chopped taste about 4 minutes. Stir in the
l 5 cloves garlic, minced or l 2 teaspoons maple syrup (may garlic and ginger and cook until
pressed substitute brown or white fragrant, 30 seconds.
l 1 thumb-sized piece fresh sugar) l Add the stock, coconut milk and
ginger, finely grated l 8 ounces firm, white fish, such curry paste and bring to a boil.
Tok Seel
(Seared White Beans With Pumpkin Seeds)
3 to 4 servings (makes about 3 cups)
Be sure to drain the beans, whether they are home cooked or canned,
and pat them dry to avoid excessive splattering.
Total time: 25 mins
Refrigerate for up to 4 days.
Adapted from “Treasures of the Mexican Table” by Pati Jinich
(Harvest, 2021).
Ingredients
l 3/4 cup (4 ounces) raw, hulled
pumpkin seeds
l 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
l 1 tablespoon peanut oil
l 1 tablespoon olive oil
l 3 cups cooked white beans,
such as cannellini, great
northern or navy, drained (see
NOTE; if using canned, use two
(15-ounce) cans, drained and
rinsed)
l 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper, plus more to
taste
l 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh
cilantro leaves, plus more for
garnish
l 1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh
chives, plus more for garnish
l Fine salt (optional)
l 2 scallions, white and light
green parts, thinly sliced, for
garnish
l 2 limes, halved, for serving
l 1/2 fresh habanero or serrano
chile, minced, for serving
l Corn tostadas or crusty bread,
for serving (optional)
Steps
l In a large, dry, deep skillet over
medium heat, toast the pump-
kin seeds, stirring frequently,
until they brown lightly and
smell toasty, and some of the
seeds start to pop, 4 to 5 min-
utes. Transfer to the bowl of a
mini food processor and pulse
until finely ground.
l In the same skillet over high
heat, heat the sesame, peanut
and olive oils until shimmering.
Add the beans, season with pep-
per and sear, stirring once or
twice, until the skins of the
beans begin to brown, about 2
minutes.
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Decrease the heat so the soup is
simmering, taste and season to
taste with salt, followed by the
lime juice and maple syrup. Add
the fish and shrimp and simmer
until the fish is just cooked
through, about 8 minutes.
l Add the soba noodles and cook
until heated through, about
2 minutes (see NOTE). Taste,
and season with more salt and/
or lime juice, if desired.
l Ladle the soup into bowls, gen-
erously top with cilantro and
serve hot.
l NOTE: If you’re not planning to
eat all of the soup at once, you
may want to reserve the noo-
dles and soup separately. If left
in the soup, the noodles will
soak up the broth and become
gummy.
Nutrition | Per serving (1 2/3 cups): 438
calories, 30 g protein, 41 g carbohydrates,
19 g fat, 12 g saturated fat, 64 mg
cholesterol, 881 mg sodium, 2 g dietary
fiber, 5 g sugar
Recipe tested by Olga Massov; email
questions to food@washpost.com
tro and chives and cook, gently
stirring until incorporated,
another 1 to 2 minutes. Taste,
and season with salt, if desired.
Transfer to a serving platter and
top with the scallions and more
cilantro and chives. Serve
alongside the lime halves and
the chiles, as well as tostadas or
crusty bread, if desired.
l NOTE: To cook the beans for
this dish as Jinich does, rinse
1 pound of beans, then place
them in a large pot and add
enough water to cover by 3 inch-
es. Chop 1/2 of a red onion and
3 cloves of garlic. Add the onion,
garlic, and 3 sprigs of fresh
epazote or cilantro to the beans.
Stir to combine and bring to a
boil. Reduce the heat so the
liquid is simmering, partially
cover and cook for 1 hour. Sea-
son to taste with salt and con-
tinue cooking until the broth
thickens and the beans are ten-
der but retain their shape, an-
other 15 to 30 minutes. Remove
from the heat and discard the
aromatics. To use the beans for
the dish above, drain the
desired amount before proceed-
ing with the recipe.
Nutrition | Per serving (3/4 cup), based on 4:
376 calories, 15 g protein, 29 g
carbohydrates, 23 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 0
mg cholesterol, 338 mg sodium, 13 g
dietary fiber, 0 g sugar
Recipe tested by Rachel Sadon; email
questions to food@washpost.com